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Rev. John T. Duffield, D.D., L.L.D. 



Record of the Class <2/^ Eighteen 

Hundred and Seventy-six 

^Princeton University 



Board of Editors 

HENRY L. HARRISON, Secretary and Treasurer 

W. J. HENDERSON 

EDWARD D. LYON HENRY M. RUSSELL 




Number VII. — 1 876-1901 



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CONTENTS 

Frontispiece — Rev. John T. Duffield, D.D., LL.D. 
Class Group 

PAGE 

The Inquisitorial Circular v 

Prefatory Remarks vii 

Personal History 

Graduates, Academic i 

Graduates, School of Science 130 

Non-Graduate Members, Academic 13^ 
Non-Graduate Members, School of Science 159 

Marriages 162 

Births 166 

Necrology 178 

Recapitulation 179 

The Reunion 180 

The Class Meeting 182 

The Dinner 184 

The Speeches 185 

The Class of '76 Prize Debate 193 

The Sesquicentennial 196 

'76 and Princeton 196 

The First Five Years of the University 197 

Faculty Notes 201 

Football and Baseball Scores 203 

The Class Roll with Addresses 205 



THE IN^ISITORIAL CIR- 
CULAR 

CLASS OF '76 
1876-1901 

We will not speak of years to-night — 

For what have years to bring 
But larger floods of love and light, 

And sweeter songs to sing? 

Holmes. 

1. Name, with all titles. Address in fulL 

2. History since last reported, personal, business, 
professional, literary, political, honors received, 
publications, club membership. 

3. If married since last report, give date, and maiden 
name of wife. 

4. Children, names and dates of birth. If any have 
died, give dates. If any children are at college, 
state where, and what course is being pursued. 

5. Suggestions on secondary education from the ex- 
perience of the children. 

6. Views on future growth and expansion of Prince- 
ton University. 

7. Observations on life as viewed after twenty-five 
years of graduation. 



PREFATORY REMARKS 

We may build more splendid habitations, 

Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculpture, 

But we cannot 

Buy with gold the old associations! 

Longfellow. 

Several classmates, perhaps from the engrossment 
of business or "the cares that infest the day," have 
failed to reply to the circular of inquiry. Of the rest, 
many were smitten with an aggravated case of mod- 
esty when they began to write their "history since 
last reported," which "absent treatment" on the part 
of the Secretary was impotent to overcome. Fortu- 
nately, in several instances the fates were propitious 
and furnished additional material of interest. 

The list of members grows shorter ; four have been 
called from places of influence and usefulness to high- 
er and larger service. Of the Faculty whom we knew, 
three have died during these five years — ■Professors 
Murray and Schanck and dear "Old Duff." 

The Record has been illustrated with views of the 
college grounds and buildings, and a map has been 
added to assist such as have not visited Princeton in' 



recent years in locating the new features and discov- 
ering their relation to the old. A few portraits have 
also been inserted and an article on the First Five 
Years of the University. 

The Spirit of ^^6 still survives, purer and stronger 
than ever. One and another at the reunion, in for- 
mal speech or quiet conversation, told how the thought 
of Old Nassau and the Class had now and again 
been an inspiration to renewed effort and to higher 
endeavor; while all felt that the hearty handclasp 
and the exchange of reminiscences had rolled away 
the cares of years and brought back youth again. 

Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defense save 
Friendship. — Shakespeare. 




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PERSONAL HISTORY 

DUDLEY S. ANNESS, 983 Bergen Street, Brook- 
lyn, New York. 

Anness has no changes to report in his business 
or in his family. His eldest daughter, Marjorie, 
was class poet when she was graduated from the 
Brooklyn High School in December, 1900. 

J. FRANK BALL (Judge), 1019 Park Place, Wil- 
mington, Delaware. 

"Five years of hard work. No publications, 
thank you. Trustee of workhouse, no salary. 
My term as Judge of the Municipal Court expired 
in October, 1900. 

3. "I am not guilty of bigamy. 

4. "Same as last report. One year too early for 
college. Will have a girl ready for Princeton next 
year if she will only admit her. 

5. "Judging from interviews with my children 
secondary education is now about what we had 
when we graduated. My suggestion would be 
that the standard be lowered to protect us old fel- 
lows from our children. 

6. "It is the only kind of expansion I believe in. 

7. "Do you mean that we can answer this ques- 
tion fully and still get the Record for $3.00? What 
does the Committee mean? Who cares what an 



old fellow out of college for twenty-five years 
thinks of life? What does his observation amount 
to? Ask this question of a Soph and he will write 
you a book." 

REV. JAMES MORRISON BARKLEY, A. M., 
D. D., 179 Alexandrine Avenue, West, De- 
troit, Michigan. 

"My work since last report is the same as at 
that date, viz.: The pastorate of the Forest Ave- 
nue Presbyterian Church, Detroit. Since that 
time I have been honored with the degree of Doc- 
tor of Divinity by Alma College, Michigan. I still 
speak to my friends as usual, however, and wear 
the same size of hat as before. 

"I was married just twenty-two years ago to- 
day (May 2"]^. And that is the whole story on 
that point. 

4. "Earl is in the class of '04 at Old Nassau. 
Marjorie graduates June 6, 1901, from the Detroit 
Seminary for Young Ladies. 

5. "To me this is more of a problem for my chil- 
dren than it was for myself. My calling, already 
settled when I entered the later stages of my pre- 
paratory course, determined my college course. I 
have no wisdom on this point further than to sug- 
gest that aptitudes, talents, tendencies in the child 
or youth be discovered, if possible, and the course 
in college be made to minister to them. I would 
send the young man or woman to their life work 
along the line of least resistance. 

6. "Very slight observation at close range in- 



clines me to the opinion that, for a while, Prince- 
ton's growth should be intensive rather than ex- 
tensive, although I should be glad to see schools 
of law and medicine established. And the law 
course, in view of the changed conditions and en- 
larged importance of our foreign relations, ought 
to lay particular emphasis on diplomatic and in- 
ternational law generally. But, as above said, I 
believe that the growth in the next five years 
should be in the direction of making better that al- 
ready begun. In college customs I should like to 
see a change wrought in some respects. Some of 
these are pure snobbery. They are un-American 
and degrading to self-respecting young manhood. 
And in the spirit of real Princeton I denounce such 
small snobbery. I'd particularize if space per- 
mitted. 

7. "Well, life, for me, has been 'real' and 'earn- 
est.' Edward Bok, a few years ago, said that the 
young men who go into the ministry never rubbed 
up against the world. I have rubbed up against 
something that was very rough and real at times. 
And I joy in trying to be, in my quiet place, *a hero 
in the strife.' As a believer in Divine Sovereignty 
I cannot be a pessimist. Facts forbid foolish op- 
timism. I rejoice to take my share in the work 
of helping forward the golden age of the world." 

REV. SYLVESTER W. BEACH, Bridgeton, 
New Jersey. 

"Variety" says: "My name and title have suf- 



fered no change. Work has gone on in the way 
usual in my calling, except that responsibilities 
(honors, if you choose to call them such) have 
steadily increased. Every day brings me new cause 
for thankfulness that I was led to choose the minis- 
try of the Gospel as my life work. Our family has 
had no increase and no losses. Our three children, 
aged respectively sixteen, fourteen and ten, are at 
school, the eldest being almost ready for college. 
Unfortunately for us, Princeton has not yet an an- 
nex for young women, so a lesser good must be 
sought in Smith or Wells. 

"I have no observations on life to present except 
to say that I believe life is well worth while. I 
have no sympathy of an experimental sort with 
Schopenhauer or Omar Khayyam. 

"I watch Princeton's progress with the keenest 
interest, and find only a few things in its present 
policy that I would like to change." 

December 19, 1897, Beach completed ten years of 
service as pastor of the church at Bridgeton, and 
reported 276 members added during that period. 
A local paper said on the occasion : "Rev. Mr. 
Beach is an able expounder of the Word, a de- 
voted worker for the good cause, a successful pas- 
tor, and is held in highest esteem both by his parish- 
ioners and the people in general of our city." 

HENRY RUSH BIDDLE. Died January 3, 1877. 
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LIEUT. JONATHAN WILLIAMS BIDDLE. 

Died September 30, 1877. [See Record No. IV., 
page 28.] 

ROBERT EDWIN BONNER, The New York 

Ledger, Spruce and William Streets, New 

York City. 

The President of the Class writes: "The 

answers to your first four inquiries, to wit: name, 

history, marriage since last report, and children, 

remain about the same as in my report five years 

ago. The same name with no new titles, the same 

business with no political honors added, the same 

wife and the same children. 

"In regard to your fifth question, my children are 
sufficiently young that their primary education is 
the subject which is now engrossing my spare 
time. It is my intention that they shall all speak 
English, German and French by the time they ar- 
rive at twenty-one years of age, shall be prepared 
for college and shall take either the scientific or 
academic course, according to the inclination of 
each youngster. Also that they shall be given the 
privilege of choosing their own university. It 
will not be my fault if they do not all go to Prince- 
ton, but not one of them will be compelled to go 
there if he happens to choose another college. 

7. "I am surprised that you should try to lead 
me into the temptation of afflicting the members 
of the dear Class of '76 with all my views and 
serious observations for the past twenty-five 



years. This question reminds me very much o£ 
the advice given by an old clergyman to a young 
one who asked him what was the proper length of 
a sermon. The old gentleman's reply was, 'Twenty 
minutes, with a leaning to the side of mercy.' " 

Bonner is a member of the Princeton, University^ 
Lotos, and other clubs. 

This spring the leading publishers of New York 
City, desiring to protest against a proposed ruling 
of the Postmaster General in regard to second-class 
mail matter, appointed a committee to represent 
them before the Department. Bonner was elected 
chairman, went to Washington, and, by the aid of 
his training under "Dad" Atwater, made a strong, 
logical argument against the position of the Post 
Office authorities. Decision has not yet been ren- 
dered. 

HARRINGTON BROWN, 4875 Vermont Ave- 
nue, Los Angeles, California. 

"No history. One day like unto another in 
Southern California. We mark not time ; we have 
no epochs. Business : New asphalt plant oper- 
ated under title of Southern Refining Company. 

"Same wife, thank God. 

"Ditto children — all living, thank God. 

5. "Treat children as reasonable beings; make 
companions of them and correct them as little as 
possible, allowing them practically their own way. 

6. "Should be and will be most glorious univer- 
sity in the world. 

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7. "Were it not for the necessity of chasing the 
ever eluding Almighty Dollar, which makes life 
somewhat strenuous, it would have been one long, 
glad song; but, at any rate, it is not *hawf baad, 
don't you know.' " 

JOHN P. BROWN, care of Charles Scribner's 
Sons, 155 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 
"Jai" is as modest as ever, and writes briefly: 
"My name and titles (?) remain unchanged and 
I still hang out at 155 Fifth Avenue, in the finan- 
cial department of Charles Scribner's Sons, and 
my residence, as formerly, is 130 Ashburton Ave- 
nue, Yonkers, N. Y. I think I have all my chil- 
dren recorded, but will give names, etc., for fear 
I may be mistaken : Dorothy, born September 13, 
1889; Wendell Wheeler, June 30, 1892; Margaret, 
October 20, 1893, all in fairly good health." 

To this number there is to be added a girl, born 
July 6, 1901. 

HON. OREN BRITT BROWN, Dayton, Ohio. 

"Oby" answers numerically and judicially thus: 

"Still acting as Judge of the Common Pleas 
Court, Second Judicial District of Ohio, and hold- 
ing court in Dayton mostly. 

3, 4, and 5. "Same as last report. 

7. "Believe the training, experience and asso- 
ciations at college of great value in after life, but 
the actual college life usually begins when a stu- 
dent is too young to appreciate it." 



From a Dayton paper it is learned that in Sep- 
tember, 1896, in North Dakota, "Oby" had a narrow 
escape from drowning. With a friend he was 
sailing down Lake Waunduska, a body of alkali 
water, when a squall overturned their craft. After 
many efforts they succeeded in righting the boat; 
then "Oby" got in, shipped the oars and began row- 
ing for shore, his companion holding fast to the 
stern and acting as rudder, the boat being too full 
of water to hold another person. After an expos- 
ure of three hours they managed to reach land, 
thoroughly exhausted with their labors. An at- 
tack of rheumatism resulted for "Oby," which took 
him to Hot Springs, Va., at the time of the Sesqui- 
centennial, and prevented his joining those of the 
Class who assisted at that celebration. 

The Judge is winning golden opinions by his 
course on the bench, as is instanced by these ex- 
tracts from an editorial in a Dayton journal of 
April, 1899: "Judge Brown's opinion in the Kervis 
case was broad, fair and able. It is evident that 
in his every determination of fact he was moved 
by merciful consideration for the prisoner. * * * 
He spoke like a man with a heai;t as well as brains. 
He realized the appalling nature of the task as- 
signed to him of imposing the death sentence, yet 
he was moved by a strong supreme regard for his 
oath as an officer of the law. Every one in the 
court was impressed with his worko" 

At the annual meeting of the Montgomery Bar 
Association, March 23, 1901, Judge Brown was 

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unanimously endorsed for renomination and re- 
election in a district that is overwhelmingly Re- 
publican. 

WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER, Jr., office, 54 Wall 
Street, New York City; residence, 30 East 
Seventy-second Street. 

"I have continued in the practice of the law, 
devoting myself strictly to my profession and the 
interests that emanate therefrom. I am a member 
of the firm of Butler, Notman, Joline & Mynderse 
[three of the firm are graduates of Princeton] ; 
President of Lawyers' Club, 120 Broadway; mem- 
ber of the University and Princeton Clubs, Bar As- 
sociation of New York City and of the United 
States, director of the Employers' Liability Assur- 
ance Corporation of London and of the Hanover 
Fire Insurance Company; President of the Board 
of Trustees of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian 
Church, Treasurer of Church Extension Commit- 
tee of the Presbytery of New York, Fellow of the 
American Fine Arts Society. 

4. "William Allen, 3d, born January 7, 1886 ; Ly- 
man Collins, January 2, 1888; Charles Terry, Sep- 
tember 20, 1889; Lydia Coit, November 19, 1891 ; 
Louise Tracy, October 23, 1894. William Allen, 
3d, is at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn.; 
Lyman is at Mr. Allen's school. New York, and 
Charles is at the Cutler School; all are preparing 
for Princeton. 

5. "I am a strong believer in the summer school. 



Vacations of the city schools are nearly four 
months. For the past five years I have instituted 
a summer school at my country home in South- 
ampton, Long Island, during the months of July 
and August, from two to four o'clock. The les- 
sons are in the nature of advance work, and I find 
it beneficial, both physically, because it keeps the 
children from exposure at the hottest hour of the 
day, and mentally, because four months is too long 
to go without the discipline of study. 

6. "I have great faith in the growth and ex- 
pansion of Princeton. I love to visit the Univer- 
sity and keep in touch with its affairs. I find the 
Princeton Alumni Weekly a good paper to keep 
one familiar with the current events of the insti- 
tution. I am interested in the discussion of the 
change from a four years' course to three. The 
requirements for admission have increased so that 
the average age of those entering has advanced. 
The course of study in the professional schools has 
been prolonged, so that the student entering at 
eighteen, an average age, graduating at twenty- 
two, spending three or four years in a professional 
school, enters upon his life work too late." 

REV. ARTHUR BILLINGS CHAFFEE, A. M., 
D. D., 1325 Twelfth Street, Des Moines, 
Iowa. 

"In August, 1895, I accepted the presidency 
of Central University of Iowa, Pella, la. Resigned, 
1900; to become pastor of the Baptist Church at 




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Mason City, la. In September, 1900, accepted the 
pastorate of Forest Avenue Baptist Church, Des 
Moines, la.; also professorship of Mental Science 
and History, Des Moines College, Des Moines, la. 

"We have seven living children, one dead. 
My oldest son, Harold, is a junior in Des Moines 
College; a daughter, Eleanor, and a son, James, 
are in the freshman class; another son, Arthur, is 
in the Academy. 

"Princeton and her men are worthy of all ex- 
pansion." 

Chafifee declined to give any answer to question 
No. 7, but in his letter to "Gen." Harrison he said 
some things which the Class ought to see. Here 
they are : 

"I owe much to Princeton, her faculty, her insti- 
tutions, history and inspirations. But I owe also 
much to the memories of '76. To pass twenty-five 
years with the names, the scholarship, the honor- 
able offices of my classmates in memory has been 
to me a source of pleasure and helpful impulse. 
Not in any way to dishonor my Alma Mater, not 
to bring discredit to '76, but, on the other hand, to 
emulate the example of our best men, has been to 
me no small incentive during these years. Please 
bear to our classmates assembled in reunion my 
thanks to them for their unseen help, and my re- 
gret for my absence. May the kind providence of 
our Heavenly Father, the Guardian of our quarter 
century of post-graduate activity, ever accompany 



us to bring us to a more exalted reunion in His 
presence." 

REV. WILLIAM NESBITT CHAMBERS, 
Adana, Turkey-in-Asia, open mail via Lon- 
don, (Book post, address Mersine, Turkey- 
in-Asia, via French Post from Marseilles). 

"At last report I was engaged in extensive re- 
lief work in Erzroom, made necessary by the mas- 
sacres of the autumn of 1895. In the summer of 
1896, two months after our Dorothea was born, I 
sent my family to Constantinople for a few 
months' rest and recuperation, and a season of re- 
lief from the awful strain of the situation. How- 
ever, a more terrible experience was in store. At 
the moment of the outbreak of the massacre in 
Constantinople, in August of that summer, when 
6,000 or 8,060 people were done to death, my wife, 
with two of our children, was in Pera Street, al- 
most in the midst of the turmoil and bloodshed. 
That shock, in addition to what had already been 
endured, together with the terrible anxiety of the 
few following days of the massacres, was sufficient 
to send my family to America, and I remained a 
year and a half alone in Erzroom. A heavy part of 
my duty was the conduct of relief work, through 
which about 60,000 persons in the Erzroom province 
received assistance, at an expenditure of between 
$75,000 and $80,000. In this way death by starva- 
tion was prevented and two harvests were secured. 
The fact that this failed to start the plundered peo- 



pie on the way to recuperation is explained by the 
other fact that the Turkish machine continues its 
unutterable grinding in an even more unpitying 
way. 

"In the spring of 1898, after a residence in Erz- 
room of a little more than nineteen years, I with- 
drew, on account of the health of my family, to 
take up work in this city of Adana. This is a city 
of about 60,000 population, two-thirds of whom are 
Moslem. It is situated in the midst of this great 
Cilician plain, about thirty miles from the north 
shore of the eastern arm of the Mediterranean Sea. 
The climate is good, with hot summers and mild 
winters. Erzroom is 6,500 feet in elevation — this 
is at sea level. In Erzroom snow is deep, here 
snow never falls. There the thermometer goes 
sometimes to 15 degrees below zero, here it very 
seldom gets down to 30 degrees above zero. There 
the hamals (porters) and load animals are more 
vigorous than those found here. Missionary work 
is quite of the same nature as in the farther East. 
We are in hailing distance of Palestine, and we 
would be glad if any friends 'doing' that part of 
the world would also 'do' us. 

7. "On graduation from the Seminary twenty- 
two years ago I became a missionary from a sense 
of duty. I saw none of the supposed romance of 
missions. On arrival at my station the thought 
of having to spend a life in such a place, and in 
such a country as Turkey had become under Turk- 
ish rule, was anything but a joyful one. The 

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thought of the sacrifice of the privileges to be en- 
joyed in such a land as America only served to 
emphasize the oppressive contrast, and tinge one's 
feelings with sadness. Yet, though I have passed 
through two famine periods and that horrible mas- 
sacre period, in the retrospect I cannot say that I 
regret the decision I made, or that my lot has been 
cast in this land. I think I have seen as evil a 
side as there is in human nature in its cold-blooded 
and bloodthirsty and cruel aspects. Still, as time 
passes, I am increasingly impressed with the 
thought that the massacring Turks jand Chinese 
are quite within the pale of the brotherhood of 
man ; that Jehovah, our God, is the Heavenly 
Father; that the Man of Nazareth is the Elder 
Brother, the manifestation of the love of the Father 
to the children of men. Life untouched and un- 
transformed by the truth manifested in Jesus of 
Nazareth, life apart from Christ, is human life at 
its worst; it is life deprived of the gracious in- 
fluence that the Father bestows through His 
Spirit. But human life, transformed and permeated 
by the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is 
life possessed of a prospect and a power and an ele- 
vation that are indescribable in their grandeur. 
In this aspect of the question I can truly say that 
the sacrifice of the privileges and pleasures one 
might enjoy in the Occident fade into insignifi- 
cance as compared with the privilege of working 
for the regeneration and elevation of men — even of 
the people of the Orient — of bringing them to a 

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knowledge of this saving and transforming truth — 
the only saving truth in the w^orld. 

"To 'fear God and to do good to all men' at any 
imaginable sacrifice, for the sake of the Prophet 
of Nazareth and for the betterment of men, is to live 
in accordance with the true aim of life and to enjoy 
the truest satisfaction possible in life in this 
world. This seems to me the truth, whether one 
lives in the Occident or Orient, whether one works 
out the aim of his life in America, Turkey or China. 

"I am led to make an observation in regard to 
the influence of national life in the world. In our 
last report the Monroe Doctrine was discussed. 
Canadian though I am to the backbone, I rejoice 
that in spite of that doctrine the United States 
was not only at the Hague Peace Conference, but 
is now in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, the Philip- 
pines and China. She has acted in all in the de- 
fence of the rights of men. She is demonstrating 
to the world, as never before, the expanding and 
elevating power of her institutions, and what her 
conception of human rights is. She is asserting 
herself in the community of nations. She is ex- 
erting her better influence from a political stand- 
point in the world. May this twentieth century 
see her take a more leading part in the develop- 
ment of a truer national life, not only within her 
own borders, but also, by her beneficent influence 
exerted among the nations of the world, as so 
many of her citizens are doing in their individual 

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capacity, or as agents of organized Christian or 
benevolent societies." 



{Copy oj a Letter from R. W. Graves Esq., C. M. G., lately 
British Consul at Erzroom, Turkey, now at Creti. ) 

St. James Club, Piccadilly, 
London, W., April 15, 1899. 

I am glad of this opportunity of putting on 
record my appreciation of the noble work done 
by Mr. W. N. Chambers during the last few 
years in the Erzroom district. To say noth- 
ing of his previous missionary services, Mr. 
Chambers, has, as you know, for three years and 
a half administered the relief funds, and for a 
somewhat shorter time had charge of the orphan- 
ages in the Vilayet of Erzroom. During the 
greater part of that time he has borne the whole 
of that burden unaided, in a way that has excited 
my warmest admiration and even wonder. 

Over sixty thousand starving Armenians were 
succored first and last, six or seven local relief 
committees were started and kept in line by his 
letters and personal visits of inspection, hundreds 
of destitute orphans have been cared for, and scores 
of widows provided with employment in the weav- 
ing industry or otherwise ; the friction arising from 
racial and religious intolerance, personal jealous- 
ies and occasional official interference has been re- 
duced by him to a minimum, and these extraordi- 
nary results have been obtained almost single 
handed by Mr. Chambers, without even giving his 

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watchful critics, Turkish, native Christian or for- 
eign, a shadow of a chance to impugn either the 
means employed or the singleness of his humani- 
tarian purpose. 

The strain of frequent ill health and serious 
family trouble, the wearing anticipation and dread 
reality of massacre, the daily sight of an over- 
whelming mass of human misery, the apparent 
hopelessness of any lasting improvement in the po- 
sition and the pressure of never ending work and 
responsibility, all have been endured with the same 
unflinching courage, unvarying tact and temper 
and lofty devotion to duty. Not the least of his 
lovable qualities is his entire absence of self-con- 
sciousness. I am quite sure that he has never real- 
ized that the services which he has rendered to hu- 
manity are in any wise remarkable, and that noth- 
ing would surprise him more than to be told by 
those who have watched him at his work that his 
is an example to all men of a noble and unselfish 
life. 

BEV. CHARLES B. CHAPIN, A.M., D.D., 117 
Convent Avenue, New York City. 

"My life since the last report, in 1896, has 
been a quiet but very busy one. For over eight 
years I have been the pastor of the Hamilton 
Grange Reformed Church, New York City, This 
church, at present without a suitable edifice, occu- 
pies a strategic position in what is destined to be 
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New York. I have been and am straining every 
nerve to secure a building, and thus develop one 
of the strong churches of our denomination (Dutch 
Reformed) in the greatest city of our land. 

"In addition, I have written more or less for the 
religious press, have delivered outside addresses of 
various kinds, have been an officer in various re- 
ligious and charitable organizations, secretary and 
vice-president of the Patria Club of our city — in 
short, I have striven to meet the many demand.s 
of many kinds made upon a city pastor. 

"Received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from 
the New York University, June 8, 1895. 

4. "Francis Stuart Chapin, born February 3, 
1888. 

5. "There should be more psychological study 
given by educators to child life, to the nature, 
make-up and mind of the child. Secondary edu- 
cation would then in some respects be changed. 
It would become more scientific in the sense of 
being more intelligent. 

"The present tendency toward manual and in- 
dustrial training in connection with the mental is 
an eminently wise one, in my opinion. 

6. "As to Princeton University, there should not 
be, in my judgment, less of the classical and dis- 
ciplinary, from the mental standpoint, for this is 
of necessity the foundation of true education ; but 
the tendency should be more and more to the prac- 
tical ; that is, towards more opportunities for men 
to study those branches to which they have a nat- 

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ural bent, and which will help them the most in 
their after lives. 

7. "(i) As to Character: Character is the most 
important thing in a man's life. And character is 
not what a man says or does or acquires ; it is not 
even his reputation ; but it is what he himself real- 
ly is in his heart and soul before his God. 

"(2) As to Success: There are two kinds, i. e., 
worldly and real. Worldly success is that viewed 
from the human side, i. e., power, place, wealth, 
reputation ; and this is more often the result of 
circumstances than of true merit. 

"Real success is, as an out-and-out Christian, to 
fill the place God made a man to fill, and to do the 
work well he wants him to do. This may be in 
connection with fame and riches. Oftener it is not.. 
Oftener the truest successes are hidden from the 
world, and will never here be known. 

"(3) As to Wisdom: The wisest man in old '76 
will be, not the man who acquires the most of this 
world's knowledge and culture; not the man who 
makes the most of this world and gets the most 
out of it ; not even the man who does the most for 
others from the humanitarian standpoint; but the 
man who lives and sacrifices the most for the King- 
dom of God, that it may be extended in the earth."' 

REV. HARRISON CLARKE, Boulder, Colorado. 

"Since the last report, I remained as pastor of 
the Presbyterian Church at Coal City, Illinois, un- 
til October, 1899, when we moved to this place at 

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the foot of the Rockies, on account of Mrs. Clarke's 
health. We came to Boulder to live for a year or 
so, as an experiment, to see whether the climate 
would prove beneficial. It having done so, I ex- 
pect to remain in the region of the Rockies and 
engage in church or educational work. 

" Boulder is about thirty miles northwest of Den- 
ver, and is the seat of the State University, the State 
Preparatory School, and the Texas-Colorado Chau- 
tauqua, said to be the second largest in the country. 

"Beautiful scenery; fine climate; rare and dry at- 
mosphere ; altitude, one mile. Arrived here Octo- 
ber 14, 1899. 

"In May, 1899, I was a Commissioner from the 
Presbytery of Chicago to the General Assembly at 
Minneapolis, Minn., and there met Beach, Scudder 
and Symmes. Also attended a banquet of the Prince- 
ton men in the Assembly, at the West Hotel. 

5. "As for secondary education, the public 
schools are too much encumbered, if not cursed, 
with fads, frills, and ginger-bread. Too much time 
wasted on things of but little, if any, value. Too 
little of real teaching and training done. 

"The high schools and academies have reached their 
limit. They now require a four years' course, and 
this is so crowded with various studies that it is al- 
most impossible to complete them in that time and do 
thorough work. The colleges are somewhat to blame 
for this, as they have raised their requirements for 
entrance so high. 

"In the past twenty-five years the academies and 
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colleges have undergone a revolution, as well as evo- 
lution, in the courses of study, as well as in methods 
of teaching. It has been largely experimental. Isn't 
the beginning of the new century a good time for the 
educational authorities to cull from the past quarter- 
century all that has proved wholesome and practical, 
and formulate a curriculum that will be broad and 
strong, as a basis for a liberal education? The old 
classical course seems to have largely disappeared; 
and some of the new courses seem to have consider- 
able 'fancy work.' 

6. "For the past ten years or so, I have not been 
able to keep in very close touch with Princeton; 
but it seems to be the general opinion, not only 
among Princeton men, but others, that she has 
largely receded from that old-time moral and re- 
ligious life of our day, and has become too worldly 
and fashionable." 

WILLIAM ALLAN CLELAND, Chamber of 
Commerce Building, Portland, Oregon. 

"Have continued in the practice of the law. 
Nothing noteworthy in my personal, business, pro- 
fessional, or political career. Member of Commer- 
cial Club of Portland. 

"Not married. 

6. "Have great pride in and hopes for the growth 
and expansion of Princeton University, but not 
sufficient knowledge of just what is being done or 
what is under contemplation for its advancement, 
to enable me to enlarge upon the subject. 

7. "Too far west for observations." 

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REV. ARTHUR B. CONGER, Rosemont, Penn- 
sylvania. 

"I have mislaid your blanks, and nave nothing 
to report beyond pegging away at the old stand, 
and the death of my dear wife, November lo, 1896." 

ALFRED C. COURSEN, Madison, New Jersey. 

"I practiced law in New York City for over 
twenty years, when my health broke down, and 
last spring I opened in the country, near my home, 
a 'squire's' office. My literary achievements have 
not gone higher than magazine and newspaper 
contributions. My fellow citizens rejected me as 
a reform mayor by a majority of 78 votes. (I am 
glad it was not 76). I could have been elected all 
right if I had kept it up. My club is within my 
'castle.' 

"Children: Marion, born February 27, 1887; 
Gladys and Donald Chester, July 15, 1888; Ronald 
Chester, December 2, 1893. Donald Chester died 
July 15, 1888. 

5. "I am not competent to advise under this 
head. 

6. "If Princeton University is thinking of be- 
coming a rich man's college, the best thing it can 
do is to give its faculty a course in Roman history. 

7. "You ask for 'observations on life as viewed 
after twenty-five years of graduation,' upon the 
suggestion of a classmate that this from each mem- 
ber should throw some side lights on the Book of 
Proverbs. That is a strong thought, and I believe 



you should have given us the name of the author 
of it. 

"It will be to some of us as the last message that 
we shall deliver, and even though it shall not be 
delivered, but only uttered, it will be spoken sol- 
emnly. If one hundred and eighteen Princeton di- 
plomas (less deaths) can move through the world 
for twenty-five years and gain nothing of mutual 
helpfulness, then the university would better close 
its doors. For such is not the mission of the higher 
education. And yet it has occurred to some, that 
mutual helpfulness, like many another virtue of 
civilization, has gone down in the 'individualism' 
of the commercial order which has now run riot to 
perfection. The ways of Providence are not ques- 
tioned, and it is not doubted that the dawn of true 
equality is preceded by this, the darkest hour of 
the world's known history. We know that no 
deeper depths can be reached when we read (last 
November, in the most conservative of news 
agencies) that ten or twelve thousand Chinamen 
were pushed off the bank, until for days their bod- 
ies impeded navigation; and when we read that 
right here in New York men were found who had 
worked sixteen hours a day in a bakery in a hole 
in the ground without any ventilation, until they 
had dropped to sleep on the dough upon which 
they were working. 

"Such things concern us less than the breaking 
of a shoe-string — they concern us less because they 
inconvenience us less. And yet men go to church 

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and pray about them and ask God to bless them 
as the direct means of grace and salvation. The 
wonder is that they do not fear that a bolt will 
come out of heaven and strike them dead. If the 
desire for gain, in the competitive struggle for ex- 
istence, should be eliminated, a raving maniac 
could not conceive such iniquity of action or such 
blasphemy of expostulation. We have become a 
race of Ishmaels, a savage race, in which every 
man's hand is raised against his brother, and there 
is not one of us who, if he could, would not take 
unto himself every blessing now enjoyed by every 
other. Those words ought to blight the hand that 
writes them, they should blear the eyes that read 
them and they should palsy the mind that hears 
them. But the fact is otherwise, and if they 
should be translated into polite and conventional 
phrases, they would be part of the stock ideas with 
which our good are consoled. 

"If you do not appreciate these things, if you are 
not informed upon them, the means of knowledge 
is complete, for the science and literature of social- 
ism are well advanced. You are of those who 
should be giving, rather than receiving, of enlight- 
enment upon this, the admitted problem of greatest 
urgency now confronting the entire world. How 
can a Princeton '76 man approach the twenty-fifth 
anniversary of his graduation, bracing himself for 
the half-century hurdle of life, and know these 
things silently? 'We brought nothing into this 
world, and it is certain we can take nothing out,' 

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and if we are to do aught of the only real good 
that can be done, good for others, when shall we 
begin to raise our voice or our hand? We are 
chargeable with some knowledge of the proper 
means, and should by this time know that puny 
^charity,' administered upon full stomachs to empty 
ones, is no more a cure than is quenching fire with 
oil. If you repudiate other men's views, then what 
are you doing to expound your own ? And if noth- 
ing, when shall you begin? 

"I protest, that the legitimate work of philan- 
thropy is work for humanity, and that individual- 
ism in the world is nothing but peopling the world 
with devils. You may conclude that 'Billy' has 
grown crusty, but I warn you not to draw a con- 
clusion until you shall have duly considered your 
premises, after the manner which that just and dear 
old man, 'Dad' Atwater, has taught you. It may be 
true, as Bolton Hall thinks, that the salvation of 
man lies in his complete starvation; but it greatly 
and personally behooves you educated men to look 
to your powers and to take thought that you es- 
cape that greatest damnation, that you had a talent 
and refused to use it. I challenge each of you 
silently to prove to himself this theorem or its 
converse." 

BRYANT O. COWAN, Springfield, Illinois. 

"Since last report my life on the farm has been 
uneventful. I have grown an abundance of grass, 
about which Senator Ingalls wrote that incom- 

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parable gem of agricultural literature. And an 
abundance of rich grass is necessary to grow good 
short-horns, so I have both. I have been elected 
Assistant Secretary of the National Short-Horn 
Breeders' Association, with headquarters in this 
city. 

"Names of my children: Cora E., born Sep- 
tember 20, 1879; Florence J., January 26, 1886; and 
Lillie, August 12, 1887. The last died in infancy. 
Cora attended Tarlcio (Mo.) College and the Art 
Institute, Chicago, 111. Florence is in Tarkio Col- 
lege at present, taking the classical course." 

SAMUEL CRAIG COWART, Freehold, New 
Jersey. 

"Since last report I have been busily engaged 
in the practice of law at Freehold. Have worked 
hard and am making a comfortable living, but am 
not rapidly growing wealthy. Have done no literary 
work, except the writing of briefs which have been 
especially remarkable for their length. Have been 
elected Ruling Elder, and recently Superintendent 
of the Sunday School, in the First Presbyterian 
Church of Freehold ; Davy Perrine is also an Elder 
and Fred Parker a Deacon in the same church. 
The class of '76 is therefore pretty well represented 
in this portion of the Master's Vineyard. 

"Have not married again since last report, as 
I am very well satisfied with my present good wife. 

"Princeton has expanded wonderfully since our 
departure in ^^6, but I still think there is room 

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for improvement. There ought to be elective 
courses in law and medicine, and perhaps in other 
professional studies, which would give a young 
man a good foundation on which to build in his 
chosen profession, 

"As I look back upon the past twenty-five 
years of experience in life's journey, I am more 
and more convinced that the best equipment for a 
young man in commencing the journey is implicit 
trust in God, a hopeful spirit, and indomitable per- 
severance." 

BRODIE JACKMAN CRAWFORD. Died July 
27, 1883. [See Record No. IV., page 39.] 

CLARENCE CUNINGHAM, Charleston, South 
Carolina. 

"My life for the last few years has been so strict- 
ly private that I cannot conceive how it can in- 
terest any save my immediate entourage of friends 
and my family. Under the new system of labour 
plantation affairs are as complicated as are the af- 
fairs of the wide, wide world. To my plantation 
affairs I have been giving my attention, and my 
leisure hours I have occupied with deeper studies 
and observations on politics, sociology, and philos- 
ophy, hence have had no time for clubs and other 
such aggregations that disturb rather than further 
thought and industry. Not to be too much the re- 
cluse and fossil I have traveled somewhat. As 
simple, peaceful and bucolic as my life is, it does 

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not so fill me with selfishness as not to wish each 
and all of my classmates success in their different 
and diversified pursuits, whether material or in- 
ner and moral, nor have I grown so unsympathetic 
as not to offer them my sincerest sympathy and 
encouragement in their failures and disappoint- 
ments." 

The Daily Sun, Charleston, S. C, of June 29, 
1896, contained a letter, from which the following 
is obtained: 

"I have failed to notice as yet the mention 
of the name of one gentleman in connection 
with the office he now fills, who seems to 
me to be peculiarly fitted for the position. I 
refer to the present County Treasurer, Mr. 
Clarence Cuningham. Though not by bent 
especially adapted to the ways of politicians 
most calculated to commend him to popular favor 
with the masses, Mr. Cuningham possesses the 
qualifications and requisites of character, habits of 
mind and training, which above all others are im- 
peratively essential to the particular position which 
he now occupies. The conscientious, careful and 
laborious scrutiny and performance of every de- 
tail of his responsible office and of the expenditures 
of the public's money which passes through his 
hands, and his indefatigable insistence on the due 
forms being observed and both the spirit and the 
letter of the law with regard to all the claims on 
the treasury presented to him carried out, charac- 
teristics which no one familiar with the workings 

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of the office for the past year will deny him, render 
his services especially desirable and valuable in this 
office. 

"In Mr. Ciiningham the public has a careful, cap- 
able and efficient officer, whose personal probity 
and responsibility few will undertake to question. 

"It was largely due to Mr. Cuningham being 
' made a Jury Commissioner by virtue of his office 
that the jury box was revolutionized to the extent 
of giving the courts juries of the character which 
has recently given the community a new experi- 
ence." 

HON. HENRY E. DAVIS, LL. D., Jenifer Build- 
ing, Washington, District of Columbia; resi- 
dence. The Concord, Washington, D. C. 

"Titles: A. B., Princeton, 1876; A. M., Prince- 
ton, 1879; LL. B., Columbian University, 1878; 
LL. M., Columbian University, 1879; LL. D., Na- 
tional University, 1898. 

"I do not recall the date of my last report, 
so submit the following general statement, which 
you can fit to the record which you have. I was 
admitted to the bar September 25, 1879, ^^^ ^^ 
July I, 1885, I was appointed Assistant Attorney 
of the District of Columbia, the office of Attorney 
of the District of Columbia corresponding to that 
of Corporation Counsel in other cities. This office 
I resigned October 31, 1889. From 1888 to 1897 I 
held at various times the positions of Professor of 
Common Law Practice, Judge of the Moot Court 

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and Lecturer on the History of Law in the Colum- 
bian University, this city. I resigned from that 
institution, and was elected to the faculty of the 
National University Law School here, first occupy- 
ing the chair as instructor in Mercantile Law, Evi- 
dence and the History of Law. I am now instruc- 
tor in that institution in the law of Common Law 
Pleading, Equity Pleading, Evidence and the His- 
tory of Law. In 1897 I read before the Section of 
Legal Education of the American Bar Association, 
at Cleveland, Ohio, a paper on 'Primitive Legal 
Conceptions in Relation to Modern Law,' which 
was republished in one of the law journals and re- 
ceived very flattering attention in the profession. 

"In 1896 I was guilty of the offense of being a 
Gold Democrat, in which offense I persist to the 
present day. I took the stump for McKinley in 
1896, and reluctantly, and only in response to the 
solicitation of a number of my fellow townsmen,. 
again took the stump for McKinley in 1900, mak- 
ing my initial speech in the latter campaign in 
Washington to 'standing room only.' In the cam- 
paign of 1896 I accepted the challenge of a promi- 
nent advocate of the Bryan cause to a joint debate 
extended to another than myself, but accepted by 
me at the solicitation of a number of my fellow 
sinners in the cause of Gold. The debate was held 
in the presence of some seven or eight thousand 
people, taxing to its utmost the largest auditorium 
in the city. 

"On February i, 1897, I was nominated by Pres- 

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ident Cleveland to be United States Attorney for 
the District of Columbia, and after being hung up 
in the Senate for one month, my nomination was 
laid upon the table through the efforts of my for- 
mer political associates, whom my course in the 
preceding campaign had offended. On March i, 
however, and contrary to all precedents, I was ap- 
pointed by the Supreme Court of the District of 
Columbia to that office, which I held until the fifth 
day of October, 1899. During my term of office I 
had the distinction of prosecuting and trying Have- 
meyer and others in what are known as the Sugar 
Trust cases, which attracted national attention. 

"The most gratifying distinction which I ever 
had was that on the occasion of the retirement from 
the bench last year of one of the most respected 
and esteemed judges of our court, I was chosen by 
the bar to make the memorial address upon his life 
and professional and judicial career. In 1899 I 
was selected by the Washington Academy of 
Sciences to deliver an address on the 'Constitution- 
al Development of the District of Columbia,' which 
was one of three addresses delivered before the 
Academy in that year to be preserved in its records 
and published. 

"1 am a member of the following clubs : Metro- 
politan, Cosmos, Chevy Chase, Woodmont Rod 
and Gun Club, and Analostan Boat Club ; also of 
the American Bar Association. I represented the 
District of Columbia on the committee on John 
Marshall Day. 

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"There is no change in my matrimonial or family; 
status since my last report. 

"In view of my answer to the immediately pre- 
ceding questions, any views that I might have to 
offer on 'Secondary Education from the Experience 
of the Children,' would, as we say in the law, be 
purely obiter dicta, and are therefore withheld. 

"I take it that my views on the future growth 
and expansion of Princeton University are those 
which are held by all alumni, and I deem it neces- 
sary to say only that I hold, as I have always held, 
that Princeton is the ideal educational institution 
of the country, and that its growth and expansion 
will be in accordance with the high ideal which it 
has always sought to maintain, and, as I think, 
which it more nearly approaches than any of our 
sister institutions. I can see for Princeton only a 
future of the highest success and widest usefulness 
and influence. 

7. "Great Scott! Do you want me to write a 
volume or an epigram in answer to this question? 
I could give you a volume, but I doubt my ability 
to conceive a suitable epigram. 

"Although I have been assiduously engaged in 
the practice of my profession and with my duties 
in the law schools, I have been a close and constant 
student of polemical and philosophical questions, 
the history of institutions, and anthropology, with 
the result that I have acquired and cultivated an 

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intense interest in what Clodd calls, 'Those high 
matters about which, like planet tethered to sun, 
the mind of man revolves by irresistible attraction,* 
As a consequence my views on many subjects 
have undergone some radical changes, and have 
come, I fear, to smack very much of the mundane; 
and, though wholly without any pessimistic flavor, 
I find myself gravitating towards the philosophy 
of Omar Khayyam, as expressed in the quatrain : 

'Some for the Glories of this World, and some 
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come. 
Ah, take the Cash and let the Credit go, 
Nor heed the Rumble of a distant Drum.' 

"And in view of the swift and momentous mak- 
ing of history, both political and social, during the 
past quarter of a century, I find myself rather min- 
imizing the individual and magnifying the national. 
I begin to believe that although the individual, of 
course, is at the bottom of all things social and 
political. Providence is working out its plan 
through the instrumentality of nations rather than 
of men, and that the sacrifices of patriotism and 
the noble deeds of philanthropy have their real 
springs in this fact, although not always conscious- 
ly. I am much impressed by Charles Dudley War- 
ner's estimate that the three great men of the cen- 
tury just closed were Lincoln, Bismarck and Ten- 
nyson ; the last being, par excellence, the seer of the 
century. His noble philosophy, playing about the 

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central idea, 'That somehow good will be the final 
goal of ill,' and that that goal is to be attained in 
the working out of 

'The one far-off, divine event 
To which the whole creation moves,' 

impresses me more and more as the most distinc- 
tive contribution of the century to the solution of 
what I heard an eminent divine characterize as 'the 
mystery of human enterprise.' No doubt dear old 
'Dad' would raise his hands in deprecation of this, 
as possibly 'leading to Pantheism,' but I do not 
balk at the thought because of this. 

"Now, after this learned effusion, do you know 
what my views on life are, after my quarter of a 
century's observation? Like the banished Duke 
of Shakespeare, I think that I have come to see 
the 'good in everything,' and, to return to Omar, 
I do not care so much as formerly for 'the Rumble 
of a distant Drum.' Am I becoming material? 
On the contrary, I think that I am becoming more 
spiritual, only it is with the spirit of the universe 
that I am more in touch than in the earlier days." 

At the annual meeting of the Princeton Alumni 
Association of the District of Columbia, held Feb- 
ruary 27, 1901, "Jeff" was elected vice-president, 
and he acted as toastmaster at the dinner that fol- 
lowed. In Princeton, at the Alumni dinner, June 
II, 1901, the high honor was accorded to him of 
presiding and acting as toastmaster, which he did 
with marked tact and felicity. 

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REV. PROF. COLLINS DENNY, Vanderbilt 
University, Nashville, Tennessee. 

Titles: A. M., Princeton, 1879; B. L., Univer- 
sity of Virginia, 1877, 

"Professor in Vanderbilt University since 1891. 
Chair : Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. 
Delegate to the General Conference, 1894, second 
on the list of the Baltimore Conference. Acting 
Secretary of the General Conference, 1894. First 
on the list of delegates of the Baltimore Conference 
to the General Conference, 1898. Member of the 
Book Committee of the M. E. Church, South, since 
1894. Chairman of the committee since 1898. 

4. "One child since last report; Collins, Jr., born 
June 10, 1899. The two oldest children are stu- 
dents in Vanderbilt University, candidates for B. 
A. degree first, then M. A. degree." 

REV. ELLIOTT LAURENCE DRESSER, Di- 
vernon, Sangamon County, Illinois. 

"No great changes have occurred since my last 
report, save that you may add one more olive 
branch to my already shady — no, that is not the 
word, well-stocked, perhaps, will do — nursery. 
Ivan Chandler was born July 3, 1896, and is 
now a vigorous boy of four and a half, who shouts 
for 'Blackburn,' but who, I trust, will some day 
shout for Princeton baseball and football teams. 
I am not sure that I want him to be on either team, 
so will not be disappointed if he does not get that 
honor. Our son Laurence has just finished his 

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first year at Blackburn University. He has taken 
many prizes in drawing and writing in the 'Open 
Window Club' of the Chicago Record-Herald, and 
intends fitting himself to be an artist or journalist. 

"I removed to this field of labor in November, 
1896, since which time our town has trebled its 
population, and will double again in the next year. 
We boast a coal mine second to none in the United 
States, with prospect of another equally good in 
the near future. 

"I am still in the active ministry, with the same 
old loyalty to Princeton and pride in her class 
of '76." 

JOHN FLETCHER DUFFIELD, M. D. 

No report. John's son, Barry, has just com- 
pleted his freshman year at Princeton, being a 
member of the class of 1904. 

FRANK DUNNING, Valley Home, Warwick, Or- 
ange County, New York. 

Dunning is the soul of wit, brevity itself. His 
extremely short letter gave no information addi- 
tional to that supplied to the last previous record. 
Undoubtedly he still passes most of his time in the 
country and is interested in breeding and raising 
stock. He says : "If you had a question, say, 'ob- 
servations on twenty-five years of bachelor life,' I 
might have sent you some happy experiences." 

It is a great pity that Frank was not at the class 
dinner to hear Judge Ball get back at Ed Lyon 
on that topic. 

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R. A. EDWARDS, Peru, Indiana. 

"I am very greatly interested in the doings of the 
Class and hope that the contributions from the Class 
to the Alumni fund will continue to grow. 

"I believe that I have no new facts to report 
about myself. I am continuing to work hard and 
enjoy life. Location unchanged." 

THOMAS IRELAND ELLIOTT, 440 to 444 
Equitable Building, Baltimore, Maryland. 

"I haven't had any history since my last report, 
except that of an effort to keep myself and others 
straight. I put myself first because I believe that 
is the proper point of beginning. I have been to 
Europe since I saw you ; came back a little broader, 
I hope, in mind and sympathies, and I know I am 
more of an American. I love England and her 
people, but not her rulers, any more than you like 
Tammany Hall. 

"When last at Princeton I had recently entered 
upon the duties of City Solicitor of Baltimore, an 
office of considerable esteem among our citizens, 
fairly remunerative and full of demands upon one's 
time and energies. I have no doubt the boys, with- 
out regard to party affiliations, will agree that I 
had my hands full when they learn that it was 
only part of my task to obviate the results of Dem- 
ocratic mistakes, and prevent the occurrence of Re- 
publican failures in our city government. I came 
in with the change of administration from one 
party to the other, and I believe that my least 

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partial friend would be willing to say that I was 
as hard worked a City Solicitor as we have ever 
had. At any rate, you couldn't prove it by me that 
there ever was one who worked harder than I did. 

"They let me draw salary for a little over two 
years, and then I got to be persona non grata. My 
friends would tell you that that was because I be- 
lieved in carrying out promised reforms. Others 
might say it was because the incoming Mayor had 
some one whom he preferred for my place. At 
any rate the salary stopped and I retired to private 
life. There wasn't any injunction asked for by me, 
and the people didn't get up any riot. I just went, 
and stayed out. 

"I have had two other offices, but they were of 
a different kind; they were all honor and work 
without any monetary consideration. I was one 
of eight men who drew the new charter for Balti- 
more. They did talk of cutting our names in 
marble, but that was before the politicians had dis- 
covered that we had gold-bricked them. One of 
our number was, almost immediately after, elected 
Mayor of Baltimore, and since then we have been 
^between the devil and the deep blue sea,' that is, 
seven of us have been. The politicians say our 
charter is no good anyway, and the one of our num- 
ber who has been elected Mayor says he wrote the 
charter, and the rest of us had little or nothing to 
do with it. You may have seen several articles in 
the Philadelphia Saturday Post exploiting the 
charter, but leaving us out. I want you to get the 

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l)oys to believe that both the politicians and the 
Mayor have been unfair to the Class of '76 in that 
■charter business. 

"The other office that I held only lasted for a 
few days, about a year ago. The Mayor who 
didn't think anybody but himself drew the charter 
put me on our Board of Corrections. The job 
didn't last long, for the Mayor tried to run the 
Board in the interest of some of his political chums, 
and when we had demonstrated, or rather when 
he had shown, our inability to prevent him, four 
of us filed a public protest and withdrew. We 
now have otium cum dignitate. 

"I continue to be a bachelor, though not yet 
reconciled to my fate. Perhaps I may get in on 
the second vigintennial 'with wife and children all 
included.' 

"I want to see Princeton grow and expand, but 
only along those lines which characterized her when 
we were there. Then she disseminated light among 
the many. I never want to see her turn toward 
specialism. 

"There are some observations on life which have 
occurred to me, as I doubt not they have occurred 
to others of you. 

"(i) What absolute downy fledglings we were 
when we left college, and how little we really did 
know in comparison with what we thought we 
knew ! 

"(2) How much more important it was to us 



then to get started right, than to have made any 
great degree of progress! 

"(3) How much better it is to be, and remain,, 
in full sympathy with our fellow man, than to sur- 
pass and leave him behind in intellectual develop- 
ment i 

"(4) How we ought to strive to cultivate sim- 
plicity., rather than allow ourselves to become in- 
volved in and carried away with the complexity of 
our present-day civilization! 

"(5) How the college-bred man ought to throt- 
tle, wherever possible, the theory that wealth is 
an end rather than a means, and how he should set 
his face like a flint against the idea that ill-gotten 
gains, whether by unlawful, though legal, combi- 
nation, or unfair methods, can be made respectable,, 
even by devoting a portion to charitable purposes! 

"(6) There is nothing in an office that has no 
salary attached." 

Elliott was elected in February, 1901, a vice- 
president of the Princeton Alumni Association of 
Maryland. 

REV. EDWARD C. EVANS, Remsen, Oneida 
County, New York. 

Evans writes: "I am a loss what to say, for 
there are no changes in my family to report, nor 
any additional honors and titles; these are slow 
coming. Nor have I published new books, al- 
though I am preparing one in Welsh on the Gos- 
pels, nor have I made a big fortune, but am still 

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active in the work of the Gospel ministry and pros- 
perous in my worldly affairs. My observations 
on life confirm the idea in my mind that right 
thinking, right living and the blessing of God are 
the chief elements in securing a successful life." 

GEORGE FIELDING FICKLEN. Died May lo, 
1877. [See Record No. IV., page 51.] 

LIEUT. LEIGHTON FINLEY. Died February 
12, 1894. [See Record No. VI., page 36.] 

CHARLES D. FOWLER, 1420 M Street, Wash- 
ington, District of Columbia. 

"There is nothing new to report. I am still un- 
married and am living quietly here at same ad- 
dress. 

"If possible I will be at Princeton in June, when 
I hope to see all of the fellows." 

"Sooner's" history this year was short and de- 
cisive, but he made up for it when he arrived at 
Old Nassau, as he was again a "boy" with the rest 
of us and once more demonstrated his fitness as 
one of the "class wits." May we have more of it,, 
old fellow, next time. 

REV. ALBERT ANDREW FULTON, Canton, 
China. 

"Dutch" comes up smiling from his encounters 
with the Boxers, and justly from his letter; he is 
still full of the old time '76 "ginger," if not of the 

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Canton kind. His interest in things Princetonian 
is still flourishing as of yore, and he sends much 
love to all members of '76. We regret that illness 
in his family prevented his attending the reunion. 
He says: "What would I not give to see Prince- 
ton w^ax old Yale to-morrow." It was a braw 
.sight, and we are sorry, "Steamboat," that you 
missed it. 

"Since my last report I have been engaged chiefly 
in evangelistic work in the Province of Canton, 
China. The past eight years have been fruitful in 
the founding of out-stations and establishing of 
churches in the field committed to my care. My 
field of labor is confined to work in Canton, and 
to four districts south of that city, comprising a 
population of several millions. In those four dis- 
tricts we now have twenty-five out stations and 
five churches, and nearly one thousand adults have 
been baptized during the past eight years. In Can- 
ton we began with less than a dozen converts, 
housed in a small shop, and out of that work has 
grown the largest Protestant church building in 
the city, with a congregation of nearly two hun- 
dred members. We left Canton in May last year, 
just before the outbreak occurred. The Boxer 
movement did not extend south, but thieves took 
advantage of the general disturbance to loot our 
chapels and the homes of the Christians. Compen- 
sation for these losses was secured without trouble 
through consular agencies. 

"I regard the Chinese question as one of the pro- 

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foundest ever brought to the attention of our peo- 
ple, and I am strong in my belief that the introduc- 
tion of Christianity is the only solution of the great 
problem. China, as a mission field, is the most im- 
portant on the face of the earth, and it is also 
the most hopeful. China's vast resources are un- 
developed. It is the greatest commercial prize in 
the world. The Chinese are pre-eminently an in- 
dustrious, economical and peaceful people. Their 
hopeless condition is due to a lack of good men. 
Only Christianity can supply this need. 

"The Boxer movement was directed against all 
foreigners, and not against the missionaries alone. 
The origin of this outbreak was due to a com- 
plication of causes, aggravated by insufficient food 
supplies, but stimulated principally by the unjus- 
tifiable seizure of China's territory on the part of 
certain European powers. 

"Influenced by ignorant and ambitious counsel- 
ors, the Empress Dowager undoubtedly connived 
at the fanciful project of extirpating all foreigners, 
but speedily trimmed to meet emergencies, and it 
will probably be difficult to find out exactly to what 
extent the central government was responsible for 
plain violation of treaty rights. 

"The field of hostilities was very limited, and 
was confined almost entirely to parts of the Shan 
Tung and Pechili Provinces. The vast majority of 
the population of China are probably ignorant of 
all facts connected with the outbreak. The result 
of all the severe loss of life and property will be 

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the promulgation of needed reforms, the abolition 
of all discrimination against Christians in literary- 
examinations and in judicial proceedings, and a 
full and complete toleration of Christianity. The 
Chinese reserve the highest honors for the scholar. 
In fact, the scholars of China may be said to rule 
the empire. The Chinese are ignorant rather than 
bigoted in their conservatism. They will become 
advocates of true learning once they realize the 
potentiality and wealth of true science. 

"A Christian college has been founded at Can- 
ton with a corps of very able teachers, and all 
instruction will be carried on in the English lan- 
guage. Colleges and universities will spring up all 
over the empire, and the ignorance and supersti- 
tion of centuries will disappear before the expul- 
sive power of true learning. 

"The partition of China I regard as a visionary,. 
impracticable project. A few decades of mission- 
ary eflfort along wise, patient, tactful lines, will 
do more for China than a fleet of battleships and 
myriads of soldiers. With a few millions of 
Christians, sure to come in the near future, the 
fear of China as a belligerent, obstreperous power 
will disappear. I count it a great honor to have 
any part in this work, and find my love for the 
people and work increasing with every year spent 
in the empire. We reached the United States in 
June, and since that time I have made seventy ad- 
dresses in different cities east of Chicago. It is 
our purpose to return to China in September. I 

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have written a number of articles for the different 
religious papers, and have published a second edi- 
tion of my 'Phrase Book in Cantonese Dialect.' 

4, "Children : Edith M., preparing at Wooster, 
Ohio, for college, age 16; Theodore C, Preparatory 
Department, Wooster, age 14; Harold W., High 
School, Wooster, age 12; Ralph W., age 9; Grace, 
age 7, and Horace H., age 2." 

ALEXANDER B. GILLESPIE, Garrett, Wyom- 
ing. 

"I was in the Internal Revenue service in North 
Carolina from graduation until June, 1885. I was 
an 'offensive partisan' and was let out with my 
party. I then went into the newspaper business, 
but Republicanism failed to prosper in my locality. 

"I removed to Wyoming in September, 1888, and 
embarked in the wool industry. Prospered for a 
few years, but was caught by Cleveland's second 
administration and a blizzard which lasted forty- 
one days — one day longer than the flood — and be- 
tween the two I was cleaned out. 

"I am still in the stock business, and it looks now 
as if prosperity would soon smile again. 

"I was married in 1880. We have had the fol- 
lowing children : Annie Virginia, born March 25, 
1882, died January 17, 1886; Kenneth, born Jan- 
uary 2.2, 1884; Alexander, November 23, 1885; Hat- 
tie Perrie, June 27, 1888; Calloway and Joseph, 
twins, November 4, 1891 ; George Yeakle, Decem- 
ber 6, 1893, and Eugene, September 20, 1897. 

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"The kindest regards to each and all of our dear 
old Class of '•76." 

SAMUEL BARTOW GREENE, Monticello, New 
York. 
No report. 

REV. PROF. WILLIAM BRENTON GREENE, 
Jr., D. D., 60 Stockton Street, Princeton, 
New Jersey. 

"I have been trying to fill my chair in Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary, and I have found that it 
gives me about all that I can do. I have, however, 
made time to publish, in addition to quite a num- 
ber of book reviews in the Presbyterian and Re- 
formed Review, and some articles on the Revision 
of the Westminster Confession of Faith in the 
Presbyterian and the Presbyterian Journal, the 
following papers: 'Reality,' in the Presbyterian 
and Reformed Review, January, 1898; 'Duality,' 
ibid., April, 1898; 'Personality,' ibid., July, 1898; 
'Morality,' ibid., October, 1898; 'Immortality,' ibid., 
January, 1899; 'The Supernatural,' ibid., April, 
1899; 'The Elective System of Studies in our Col- 
leges in relation to preparation for the Theological 
Curriculum,' ibid., January, 1900; 'The Function of 
the Miracle,' The Bible Student, March, 1900; 'The 
Acceptable Offering,' The Bible Student, January, 
1901 ; 'Against the Revision of the Westminster 
Confession of Faith,' Homiletic Review, January, 
1901. 

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"Princeton University ought to learn to expand 
along the lines of religion and culture. It is in 
some danger of becoming secularized, and also of 
making its end the development of specialties 
rather than of men. 

"This world is a good one in which to learn and 
to realize God's purpose for us. It is a poor world 
for any other purpose, and any other purpose is un- 
worthy of us." 

C. CUYLER GREGORY, 914 First Avenue, North, 
Fargo, North Dakota. 

"Pope" came on from the "wild and woolly 
West" to greet the "boys" of '76 again, and hopes 
to be on deck at the next reunion, and so do we all. 
He writes : 

"History — Simply the routine of business work. 
No change in occupation." "Pope" is with a firm 
of wholesale grocers. 

6 and 7. "The most important questions of the 
present and immediate future are sociological. 

"The accumulation of wealth in a few hands, the 
absorption of the natural resources of the land by 
the few, the inability of those willing to work to 
obtain occupation, the compressing of mercantile 
power into monopolistic hands, the concentration 
of quasi-public functions and powers in the hands 
of private individuals, are a few of the pressing 
questions of moment. 

"The present systems are radically defective, 
basically wrong somewhere. Few advances to- 

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ward correct remedial principles have been made. 
Such studies are of far more value to the race wel- 
fare than dead languages, live languages, world 
construction or star dust. Should Princeton Uni- 
versity promote the investigation and study of 
these questions in dead earnest, as a living issue, 
she would attract the attention and have the sup- 
port of the country. Individual minds are awake, 
a renaissance is coming. Princeton should have a 
moulding influence." 

REV. H. P. HAMILTON, P. O. Box 2155, Mexico 
City, Mexico. 

"Hite" does not write us what he is doing down 
among the "Greasers," but we take it that he is 
still engaged in the service of the American Bible 
Society for the Republic of Mexico. He says his 
^'family remains numerically the same." He was 
in the United States for five months of 1900, but 
did not see any of the members of '76. Look 'em 
up next time, "Hite." He writes: "I may make 
an observation on life later, but at present have all 
I can do to live it day by day." The oldest son, 
Edward, is at Mohegan Lake School, near Peeks- 
kill, N. Y., where he is preparing for Princeton. 

REV. ROBERT WILSON HAMILTON, M. A., 
The Fort Manse, Lisburn, County Antrim, 
Ireland, 
"R," though not in robust health and much bus- 
ied by his manifold duties, sends his greetings from 

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R. W. Hamilton 



H. Markley 





Howard Plumley, i8i 



Howard Plumley, 1901 



the "ould sod" to the "boys" as follows: "Little 
worth recording, hands fairly full of work, the mer- 
cies abound. In addition to other work, have been 
convener for some years of the State of Religion 
and Evangelization Committee of the General As- 
sembly. 

5. "Our system is so different from yours that 
it would be difficult to make intelligible remarks. 
Our Intermediate system has done muclr for edu- 
cation, but its distinctive feature — payment of 
teacher by results — while it has served a good pur- 
pose, needs much modification, and is likely to get 
it soon. 

6. "May its growth and expansion be increas- 
ingly wide and deep. 

7. "All the experience and discipline of life 
teach the futility and waste of all else, and the 
wisdom and blessedness of one thing — seeking 
to do the will of God. Only this makes life worth 
living, and blessedly so." 

HENRY L. HARRISON, 20 East Fiftieth Street, 
New York City. 

"I am still teaching in the Cutler School, where 
I have charge of one of the departments, as for 
many years past. Much of my spare time goes 
into church work, in connection with the Collegiate 
Reformed (Dutch) Church of New York City. 

"Member of the Century, Barnard and Princeton 
Oubs. 

5. "Two members of the Record Committee, be- 

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jng engaged in secondary education, thought here 
is an opportunity to obtain views from the parental 
side, and they have gotten several. The course of 
study has been advanced in the schools until now 
it probably embraces a full equivalent of what we 
did in freshman year. At the same time, new re- 
quirements for entrance to college have been intro- 
duced, so that candidates average a year older than 
they did twenty-five years ago. The result is not 
altogether satisfactory from the view-point of the 
instructor in secondary schools, and the college 
authorities do not seem, on their part, to be alto- 
gether happy with it. Changes are coming grad- 
ually, and ultimately, without doubt, the happy ar- 
rangement will be reached. 

6. "Princeton, in its undergraduate department, 
at least, is big enough to satisfy me. In large 
classes the individual is in danger of being lost 
in the mass. If the pressure of students for ad- 
mission is great, it can easily be controlled by rais- 
ing the standard of scholarship, or by increasing 
the requirements, though the latter would seem 
to be high enough now. An institution is not liable 
to injury from having a reputation for high schol- 
arship, for being somewhat difficult to enter and 
difficult to stay in. Add special schools on the 
scientific side and increase the graduate depart- 
ments, but leave the race for large classes to other 
universities. 

7. "In the estimation of too many a successful life 
is measured in financial terms. There is need of 

so 



adoption as working principles in life of such mot- 
toes as those of Clio and Whig Halls, Prodesse Quam 
Conspici, and Literae, Amicitia, Mores, or that other 
of the child's story, Laetus sorte mea." 

CHARLES HARTRIDGE. Died November 23, 
1882. [See Record No. IV., page 62.] 

W. J. HENDERSON, M. A., Editorial Rooms, 
New York Times, New York City. 

"I returned to the position of musical editor 
of the New York Times in November, 1896, and 
have not yet been discharged. I write so-called 
musical criticism for eight months of the year and 
editorials and book reviews the rest of the time. 
It's the same old grind. Have not any other his- 
tory, 'personal, business, professional, literary or 
political,' and no 'honors received.' I have pub- 
lished since last report: 'The Last Cruise of the 
Mohawk' (1897), 'What Is Good Music?' (1898), 
'How Music Developed' (1898), and 'The Orches- 
tra and Orchestral Music' (1899). I am now writ- 
ing a big book on Richard Wagner, chiefly be- 
cause every one else has done so. It will be out 
next winter — I hope. 

4. "Harry W. Henderson is a law student at 
Cornell. 

5. "My experience from secondary education is 
not encouraging. My son, for instance, reads 
French and German easily, but cannot speak, or 
write, or understand either when spoken. I find 

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that French and German are treated now as Latin 
and Greek used to be — just taught so as to enable 
a boy to pass his entrance exams. As for girls' 
schools, I do not know what to say. Most of them 
are mere farces. The girls have dances and re- 
ceptions, and they make a pretence of studying, but 
^o not know anything. And they are not taught 
to think at all. That's the sum of my experience. 

6. "Why has not Princeton that variety of 
courses which one finds in less pretentious col- 
leges? Princeton calls itself a university, but it 
is nothing of the sort. We ought to have a wider 
curriculum in our scientific school. We need a 
law school and a medical school. We need to ex- 
pand. And in order to do so we have got to out- 
grow our old narrow, hide-bound traditions, which 
teach us that Latin, Greek and mathematics are the 
sum and substance of the higher education. We 
might as well hold that reading, writing and arith- 
metic constituted a high school course. 

7. "This is where I fall down, I have not quite 
formulated my views on life yet. If you will permit 
me to define it as life in these United States, I can 
say this, that a man who devotes himself to any 
sort of intellectual pursuit must make up his mind 
to get most of his rewards in his inner life, for he 
will find himself despised by the great mass of his 
fellow men, for the simple reason that he does not 
make large sums of money. In this free land of 
•ours, and especially in the mighty city of New 
York, only two things count — money and social po- 

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sition. And the latter is the product of the for- 
mer. Intellectual men are debarred from social 
standing in this country, solely because they have 
not money. And the moneyed class regards all 
people who do things, artists, authors, musicians, 
inventors, etc., as their servants, created for the 
purpose of amusing them. It is, of course, open 
to the artistic and intellectual men to pretend that 
they do not notice this, but as the great mass of 
their fellow men follow the lead of the rich and 
fashionable, the attitude of society toward the doer 
and the thinker is unmistakable. If I had my life 
to live over again, and were ambitious to be re- 
garded as a great and good man in this country, I 
should enter the pork packing business or try to 
get a job as a railroad president. I certainly should 
not decide to be a college president, or a 
famous novelist, or a great composer, or a 
master painter. But I have found it possible 
to get considerable comfort out of life with- 
out being a great and good man, and I sup- 
pose that is what we should all do. I am of 
the opinion that two good children can discount 
the valuation which one's fellow men place on 
one. And about this getting rich. It's a fraud 
after all. I have much more fun in my life than 
Russell Sage. In fact, I get more out of life than 
half the rich men I know of, because I see more 
in it. When a dollar grows larger than all art 
and literature, a man's intellectual horizon is 
bounded by the Wall Street edition of the after- 

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noon papers, and there are neither sunsets nor sun- 
rises for him. I don't think I would trade places 
with him, although I know that he despises me." 

"Hendy" was with us at the reunion and awoke 
the echoes with some of his stirring eloquence at 
the dinner. He is still interested in the Naval Re- 
serve, and one of his proudest moments is when 
the musicians play "Strike up the band ; here comes 
a sailor." 

BAYARD HENRY, 701-706 Drexel Building, Phil- 
adelphia, Pennsylvania. 

"There is nothing new since last report, excepting 
the fact that in November, 1898, I was chosen a 
member of our State Senate, and, following in the 
footsteps of 'Jin^i"i6' Woods, I am doing all I can 
for the 'honor of '76.' I have two more years to 
serve as Senator. 

"Three children: Howard H., Caroline M. and 
Snowden Henry. Howard H. is a member of the 
freshman class, Princeton. 

"I have no suggestions to make on secondary 
education of children, it being my judgment that 
each individual case must be governed by its own 
special circumstances, and that no general rules 
can be laid down. I am clear, however, in reply 
to your interrogatory regarding the future of 
Princeton University. Her prospects for growth 
and great success were never brighter. The pur- 
chase during the last year of the Stockton Farm for 
golf links, and the Olden farm, by those interested 

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in the University, practically gives us over 500 
acres of University campus. When we think of 
the small numbers, few buildings and little campus 
in our day, and of the large numbers, new build- 
ings and extensive grounds now belonging to the 
University, we can take pride in the prosperity of 
our Alma Mater, and feel encouraged to work more 
than ever for greater advancement in the future. 

"The only observation I have to make on life, as 
viewed after twenty-five years of graduation, is, 
that the more a Princeton man works for Princeton the 
happier he is. 

"As members of the Board of Trustees of Prince- 
ton, 'Paley' Stewart and I have done all we could 
for the University along the lines laid down by our 
beloved preceptor and President, James McCosh." 

The Trustee was telling at commencement, with 
evident enjoyment and what seemed like pride, that 
the clapper of the college bell had been removed a 
short time before by a certain student, who per- 
formed the feat quite unaided and alone. 

Bayard is a member of the Rittenhouse, Penn 
and Harrisburg Clubs, and of the University Club 
of New York. In February, 1901, he was elected 
President of the Scotch-Irish Society of Pennsyl- 
vania, and one of the vice-presidents of the Prince- 
ton Alumni Association of Philadelphia. In May, 
1901, he was elected a director of the United New 
Jersey Railroad and Canal Company. 

In connection with the fact that Bayard is a 
trustee of Princeton University it is interesting 

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to know that his father and his father's father were 
trustees of Princeton, as also were his great-grand- 
father Bayard, and his father. 

From "Sketches of Members of the Legislature 
of Pennsylvania," we learn that : 

Bayard Henry, Senator from the Fourth Dis- 
trict, is serving his first term in the State 
Senate. Until his candidacy for the Republi- 
can nomination last year, Mr. Henry had never 
been a candidate for any office, although he had 
always taken an active part in Republican politics- 
and was frequently a delegate to various conven- 
tions. Mr. Henry entered the contest for the Re- 
publican Senatorial nomination in his district last 
year as an avowed anti-Quay candidate. His cam- 
paign was one of the most remarkable conducted 
in Philadelphia in a number of years. Mr. Henry 
went before the people, openly declaring his oppo- 
sition to the re-election of Mr. Quay, and carried 
the district by an overwhelming majority at 
the primaries, and later was elected at the 
polls by a majority of 18,434, which was the 
third largest majority ever given any Sen- 
atorial candidate in the State of Pennsylvania. 
Mr. Henry is chairman of the Senate Commit- 
tee on Forestry, and is a member of the Senate 
Railroad and Judiciary General Committees. Mr, 
Henry is one of the trustees of Princeton Univer- 
sity, trustee of the First Presbyterian Church in 
Germantown, and also President of the Young- 
Men's Christian Association of Germantown. He 

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is actively engaged in the practice of law, and is 
interested in several business enterprises. 

JAMES CALDWELL JENKINS, 264 Washing- 
ton Street, Atlanta, Georgia. 

"I have been giving my time and attention to 
my profession since last report, except what I have 
given to politics. I did considerable work for the 
nomination and election of McKinley in 1896." 

He reports the birth of two children since the 
last Record: Susie Lodema, born November 30, 
1898; a girl (yet unnamed), April i, 1901, 

Jenkins has been "living a strenuous life" in the 
perturbed and highly charged political atmosphere 
of the "Sunny South." He is a warm admirer and 
friend of President McKinley and hopes to get 
official recognition for his active labors in his be- 
half. We all wish him good fortune in his efforts. 

MORRIS N. JOHNSON, 290 Broadway, or 326 
West Thirty-third Street, New York City. 

"Manager of the Metropolitan Agency of the 
American Real Estate Company. Am a member 
of the Princeton, University and Knickerbocker 
Athletic Clubs. Still unmarried." In addition to 
the above, "Johnnie" is the Secretary of the Class 
of ^^2. of Phillips Academy, Andover, and one of 
the vice-presidents of the Phillips Academy Al- 
umni Association of New York. Also, he has re- 
cently been elected Secretary and Treasurer of the 
Big Hurricane Zinc Mines Company. 

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RICHARD W. JOHNSON, M. D., Major and Sur- 
geon, United States Army; Commanding 
Officer Santa Mesa Hospital, Manila, Phil- 
ippine Islands. 

"Since the last report I was on duty in Colorado 
and Wyoming up to April, 1898. I left Tampa in 
June of that year, with the expedition to Cuba, 
as surgeon in charge of the First Division Hos- 
pital, Fifth Army Corps, and participated in the 
engagements before Santiago. I remained there 
throughout the balance of the summer, reaching 
Montauk Point the middle of September. 

"I was on duty a short while at Huntsville, Ala- 
bama, and was then ordered to Chicago as at- 
tending surgeon, and examiner of recruits. I left 
that city in January, 1900, for the Philippines, 
where I have since been on duty, as Chief Surgeon 
of the Department of Mindanao and Jolo, which 
comprises Mindanao and all the islands of the Sulu 
Archipelago. 

"Afterwards I was Chief Surgeon of the Island of 
Negros, and am now in command of Santa Mesa, 
a hospital of seven hundred beds, and the largest 
of the four general hospitals in Manila. I am well 
pleased with my present detail, but must say I 
prefer service in the States, for obvious reasons. 

4. "No children. 5, 6 and 7 I will leave to other 
members of the class more competent to speak on 
such subjects than I." 

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ROBERT W. JOHNSON, A. B., M. D., loi West 
Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland. 

"Professor of the Principles and Practice of Sur- 
gery in the Baltimore Medical College, Surgeon 
to the Maryland General Hospital, Church Home 
and Maryland Steel Company, Medical Director of 
the Baltimore Mutual Life Insurance and Annuity 
Company, etc. 

2. "I have pursued the even tenor of my way 
successfully. Have contributed to professional 
journals occasionally. Am a member of the Uni- 
versity Club, etc. 

3. "No change, thank God! 

4. "We lost our youngest child, September 29, 
1896. 

5. "Give them the best and latest. 

6. "I am glad to see that nearly 1,300 men appre- 
ciate Princeton advantages this year. 

7. "Life is all right, all right, as far as I can 
see, if temperance, decency and conscience are 
obeyed. 

"I expect to be in Europe in June, 1901, and so 
shall not be able to attend the reunion. I heard 
'Jeff' Davis make a fine speech here recently in 
favor of sound money." 

DAVID B. JONES, 62 Astor Street, Chicago, lUi- 
nois. 

"Clubs: University Clubs of Chicago and New- 
York, Chicago Club, Chicago Literary Club, On- 
wentsia. 

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"Mrs. Jones died March 17, 1899. 

"Children same as in last Record. 

"As to observations : Only such as you can find 
in the Book of Job and the Book of Proverbs." 

"Dave" neglects to say that he is President of 
the Princeton Club of Chicago. 

THOMAS D. JONES, 62 Astor Street, Chicago, 
Illinois. 

Tom still continues as one of the members of the 
tripartite legal aggregation of Swift, Campbell and 
Jones. Since his last report he has devoted him- 
self to the practice of law, except the year 1900, 
which he spent in travel abroad, and says : 

"Incidents of ordinary law practice do not make 
entertaining history, and I have little else to re- 
port." Go to, now, Thomas, thou art modest as 
ever. He is a member of the University Club of 
Chicago, Chicago Literary Club, Chicago Histor- 
ical Society, Art Institute of Chicago and Board 
of Trustees of the John Crerar Library, Chicago. 
At the second annual meeting of the Western As- 
sociation of Princeton Clubs, Tom was made Pres- 
ident. Says he is still a bachelor with "excellent 
prospects of so remaining." He also says : "I f^af 
that my views, as distinguished from hopes, on the 
future growth and expansion of Princeton Uni- 
versity are too vague to be worthy of finding ex- 
pression in a Class Record." He thinks the "ob- 
servations on life" "too big a contract." 

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WILLIAM T. KAUFMAN, 29 Nassau Street, 
New York. 

"I have mislaid the blanks, but I may say in a 
general way that there has been no change in my 
family" since I last reported, except that my twin 
girls are now young ladies, and the old man feels 
— I won't say older, but not quite 'so young as I 
used to be.' My lines have fallen in pleasant 
places and I am disposed to look at life from the 
rosy standpoint. I have had my troubles: 'Every 
lady has her troubles, and every gent,' you know, 
but the sunshine has been more constant than the 
shadows. I feel better, much better, for having 
seen the boys at Princeton, at the reunion, and I 
say from my heart, God bless dear old 'y^!' 

Billy is with Harvey Fisk and Sons, at the above 
address, and lives in Plainfield, N. J. He is a mem- 
ber of the Princeton Club of New York. 

REV. GEORGE KNOX, Indianapolis, Indiana. 

"Superintendent of Home Missions for Indiana, 
Stated Clerk of Vincennes Presbytery, Chaplain 
First Regiment Indiana National Guards ; was pas- 
tor of the Seventh Presbyterian Church, Indian- 
apolis, 1895-1896; pastor Vincennes Presbyterian 
Church, 1896-1901. 

"Of children we have a splendid double quar- 
tette, and they are 'all way up in G.' " 

"John's" oldest daughter, Harriet Elizabeth, is 
now a sophomore in the Western College, Oxford, 
Ohio, taking the full classical course, and he has 

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added one more to the charmed circle since the 
last report, Esther Lydia, born July 22, 1899. 

He is henceforth to be the peripatetic "Bishop of 
Presbyterianism for this Synod under the 'Indiana 
Plan of Home Missions.' " He writes from Vin- 
cennes, Ind., and says he was loath to give up his 
pastorate there in the city of "Alice of Old Vin- 
cennes." He, however, explains the feeling by say- 
ing "that Alice is no longer here and I am going at 
once." Fie! fie! John. 

REV. ROBERT TODD LISTON, Wetumpka, 
Alabama. 

"When the last report was made I was still 
at Oxford, Ala. About a year ago I came here, 
where I shall probably remain for some time, 
preaching to three churches. The history of these 
five happy years, like that of the average home mis- 
sionary, though full of personal interest, includes 
little that is worthy of special note. 

3. "June 9, 1896, I married Miss Isabel Lapsley, 
of Anniston, Ala. 

4. "I have three children, Margaret Lapsley, 
born April 27, 1897; Robert Lapsley, born Decem- 
ber — , 1898, and Sarah, born October 6, 1900. 

6. "Surely we all rejoice in the strength and 
beauty that every added year brings the Univer- 
sity. It is clear to me that Princeton does not give 
enough attention to printers' ink. So many period- 
icals read in this part of the country are more or 
less directly advertising Yale or Harvard that their 

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relative importance is magnified beyond the true 
state of things. Princeton ought to have a friend- 
ly journal in every State in the Union." 

JAY HENRY LONG, Mankato, Minnesota. 

"There is not very much to report since the last 
publication. I have moved my family from Slay- 
ton to the city of Mankato, one hundred miles east, 
but still keep a branch office at Slayton, the latter 
place being tributary to Mankato. Being attorney 
for several corporations having their principal place 
of business here, and my practice extending over all 
of Southwest Minnesota, it is necessary that I have 
my office in the principal city in the territory- 
named. You may drop the 'Reverend' when ad- 
dressing me. I was honorably retired, or, rather,, 
demitted at my own request. No publications ex- 
cept law briefs." 

REV. LEONARD WALTER LOTT, A. M., Par- 
ley Vale, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachu- 
setts. 

"I am rector of St. Peter's Church, Boston. 

"I may be wrong, but from my observations of 
life at Harvard (don't kill me for quoting Harvard), 
it does seem to me as though the study of law and 
medicine at Princeton would be advantageous to 
her growth. But she is sure to grow anyway." 

"Len" says, in regard to his "observations:" 
"If you want a clear answer to this question I will 
send you a few sermons. I dare not begin to tell 

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you what my observations are or I would exceed 
the limits. Services are held here at 10.30, and 
7:30 on Sunday, and any inquiring classmate will 
be given a good seat." 

REV. J. WALTER LOWRIE, American Presby- 
terian Mission, Paotingfu, North China. 

No report. Owing to the unsettled condition of 
North China it is more than probable that "Brick" 
did not receive the '^6 circulars in time to reply 
for the Record. In September, 1900, Lowrie sent 
to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions the 
first detailed account of the massacre at Paotingfu. 
He had left the station to escort his mother, Mrs. 
Amelia P. Lowrie, who had been engaged in mis- 
sionary effort at the same city, to her steamer at 
Shanghai, as she was returning home on furlough. 
By a singuar coincidence Fulton was on the same 
steamer, but unfortunately the classmates were ig- 
norant of each other's presence and did not meet. 
On his way back Lowrie had gotten as far as Tien 
Tsin when the fighting began, and he served in the 
hospital during its continuance. This explains his 
absence from his station at the time of the massa- 
cre, and had he been there it is extremely doubtful 
whether he could have escaped with his life. 

"Brick" remained in Tien Tsin for some time, 
doing what he could for the comfort and aid of the 
troops, looking after the property of the various 
missions, helping native Christians. In October 
last he accompanied the foreign troops to Paoting- 

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iu, found all the mission property in ruins, and be- 
ing comfortably housed through the kindness of 
the German commander, he began to gather the 
surviving Christian Chinese and take up again the 
work that had been so violently interrupted, with 
the result that at the beginning of this year he had 
the joy of baptizing ten men into the membership 
of the church. 

We present entire the last letter received by the 
Class secretary from Lowrie : 

"Paotingfu, Nov. i6, 1896. 

"Dear Harrison : Your announcement of the 
sesquicentennial and the rally of ^'j() boys to it, 
together with the news of the preparation of the 
Class Record, has just arrived. Herewith a cheque 
for three dollars and an additional ten cents for 
postage. Kindly send the Record to my address: 
Paotingfu, North China. 

"I was sorry not to contribute my little towards 
making the Record complete, but the main facts of 
my small history are the same as ten years ago. 
I shall be much interested to see the varied ex- 
periences of those whose lives have been modified 
and multiplied by weddings and births and ad- 
vancements and the rest, and do not in the least 
lose interest in the joys of the members of the 
old Class. 

"A suggestion occurred to me while thinking 
that very soon again the twenty-fifth anniversary 
of '76 would arrive and another Class Record be 
called for. How would it answer to call from 

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every man for three or five observations upon life 
— ^the fruit of twenty-five years' experience in the 
'billowy world' of which in college declamations 
we used to talk — (I don't think that you ever did, 
but some of the rest of us). They would, to some 
extent, each reflect the character of the writer, 
would naturally be both sober and merry, and 
ought, besides being interesting, to be even val- 
uable. The combined wisdom of such men as those 
were, gathered after the lapse of a quarter century, 
ought to throw some side lights on the Book of 
Proverbs. 

"Knowing that you are within call of many old 
classmates, through you I send greetings to all in- 
quiring ones. I am essentially a preacher these 
days, preaching six times or more a week. No 
happier or higher work on earth. Cordially yours, 

"J. W. Lqwrie." 

After the above was in type the following was re- 
ceived, July 12, 1901 : 

"Observations after twenty-five years: 

1. "There is no calling more soul satisfying, not- 
withstanding all its depressing conditions, than the 
calling of the missionary. 

2. "The eyes of men's souls are not figuratively 
but really blind. They do not see that Jesus Christ 
is indeed God come down to earth. 

3. "The common and insidious habit of depre- 
ciating men and things corrupts the detractor, is 
nauseous to high-minded men and tends to paralyze 
all well meant efforts. 

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4. "As we grow older let us not view with appre- 
hension the inevitable, swift and manifold changes 
in society, government and elsewhere. The world's 
Pilot is at the wheel. 

5, "To-morrow is one's enemy, to-day is one's 
friend. In the proper use of this friend lies one of 
the secrets of life. J. W. Lqwrie. 

"Paotingfu, North China, June i, 1901." 

EDWARD DEWIS LYON, Ph.D., 622 Fifth Ave- 
nue, New York City. 

"1 have not changed my occupation except in 
name. I am now partner in The Wilson and Lyon 
School, a majority of whose pupils are trained un- 
conditionally for Princeton. My honors consist 
for the most part of the living ones — boys enrolled 
among the honor men of the various colleges, and 
imbued with an understanding that these two 
things must go together: 'Manly dependence and 
manly independence, manly reliance and manly 
self-reliance.' 

"Of clubs, I am a member of the Princeton and 
of the University. 

"With the present expansion and outlook for 
growth of Princeton University, the mind of every 
alumnus must glow with proper pride. Dr. Mc- 
Cosh's fond hope of making Princeton an Ameri- 
can Oxford seems about to be realized. Magnifi- 
cent is the word for the new buildings and the 
sweep of college grounds, while the true scholastic 
spirit has its abode in the 'ancient pile of buildings,' 

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*far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.' 
Princeton is keeping abreast of the times, and criti- 
cism of the changes in her ancient regime involves 
criticism of the changed conditions of our country 
at large. 'Let not virtue seek remuneration for the 
thing it was.' " 

RICHARD R. LYTLE, M. D., 22 West One Hun- 
dred and Nineteenth Street, New York City. 

"It is my privilege and pleasure to record five 
years of a busy, active life in my profession since 
last report, still pursuing phantom fortune and find- 
ing her as elusive as ever. In connection with my 
private practice I am an inspector for contagious 
diseases on the Board of Health, and am also Med- 
ical Examiner for the Prudential Insurance Com- 
pany. My honors have been strictly professional, 
the plaudits of the living and the blessings of the 
dead. Besides medical societies I am a member of 
the Society of the Cincinnati. 

"My oldest daughter graduated from St. Mary's 
School last June, and the other two are now at col- 
lege pursuing the classical course ; and the two boys 
have Princeton in view as the goal of their am- 
bition. 

"The only suggestion I have to make on second- 
ary education is that too little time and attention 
are given to the study of English, the study of 
words, their derivation and uses, and to practice in 
literary composition. It is the foundation stone 

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on which to build the college and university 
structure. 

"We all glory in Princeton's growth and ex- 
pansion into a University. In this busy, practical 
age every one should have an elementary knowl- 
edge of law, and I should like to see Princeton add 
to her courses of study one on 'Outline Studies of 
Law.' 

"After twenty-five years in life's busy garden I 
agree with Solomon that 'two are better than one, 
because they have a good reward for their labor.' 
I have also observed that 
" 'The married (honest) man, though e'er sae poor, 

Is king o' men for a' that.' " 

JOSEPH McELROY MANN, 153-157 Fifth Ave- 
nue, New York. 

"Mc" is still connected with Scribner's Maga- 
zine, published by Charles Scribner's Sons at the 
above address. His oldest boy, Peter Carter Mann, 
expects to enter the freshman class at Princeton 
this coming fall, taking the academic course. 

The following clipping from the New York Times 
of August 8, 1898, may prove interesting : 

"Certain adherents of Yale declare that Avery, 
the famous Yale pitcher, invented the curved ball 
in 1873. If this is the case, they should kindly ex- 
plain how it was that on May 29, 1875, in a game 
at Hamilton Park, New Haven, Yale, facing the 
pitching of Joseph McElroy Mann of the Class of 
'76, Princeton, scored only a round goose egg, while 



Princeton, facing the famous Avery, scored three 
runs. Yale succeeded in getting a man to third 
base on errors in the first inning, and after that 
they did not get a man to first. The entire Yale 
nine showed conclusively that they had never seen 
a curve before. The truth is that Arthur Cum- 
mings of the Hartfords was the first profes- 
sional to pitch a curve, and Mr. Mann was the first 
amateur. Mr. Mann's record as a pitcher shows 
that the men who faced him did not know why 
they could not hit the ball, because the curve was 
unknown to them. Radcliff, Boyd, Fulmer, Bar- 
nie and other old-time professionals, whom he 
struck out, can testify to this." 

FRANCIS HARTMAN MARKOE, A. M., M. D., 
15 East Forty-ninth Street, New York City. 

"Professor of Clinical Surgery, Medical Depart- 
ment Columbia University, New York City; At- 
tending Surgeon, St. Luke's and New York Hos- 
pitals; Consulting Surgeon New York Orthopaedic 
Hospital. 

"Member: American Surgical Association, New 
York Surgical Society, New York Medical and Sur- 
gical Society, County Medical Society, Greater 
New York Medical Society, Pathological Society, 
New York Academy of Medicine, Physicians' Mut- 
ual Aid Association, Relief of Widows and Or- 
phans of Medical Men. 

"Life member: American Geographical Society, 
New York Historical Society, American Museum 

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of Natural History, State Charities Aid Associa- 
tion, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- 
dren, American Society for the Prevention of Cruel- 
ty to Animals, American Bible Society. 

"Clubs: Princeton, University, Century, Union, 
New York Yacht, Meadow, St. Andrew's Golf. 

4. "Francis Hartman Markoe, Jr., born June 11, 
1884, is at Pomfret School preparing for Princeton 
University, Class of 1906 or 1907. The fourth gener- 
ation in direct succession if he graduates : Francis 
Markoe, 1795; Thomas M. Markoe, 1836; Francis 
H. Markoe, 1876; Francis H. Markoe, Jr., 1906 (?). 

5. "Too much work is required of the student 
and too little of the teacher. The student should 
be taught how to study, not simply heard to re- 
cite. The teachers should be paid higher salaries 
and only those employed who have accepted teach- 
ing as a profession, and not those who simply use 
it for a year or more as a means to an end. 

6. "Close contact between Alumni and Adminis- 
tration will produce safest growth and expansion. 

7. "Too big a subject to be treated sparingly or 
lightly." 

FREDERICK ALEXANDER MARQUAND. 

Died December 20, 1885. [See Record No. IV., 
page 76.] 

GEORGE BURNHAM MARTIN. Died April 29, 
1896. [See Record No. VI., page 63.] 

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REV. WILLIAM JAMES McKITTRICK, 5097 
Washington Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 

"Since my last report I have left Calvary Presby- 
terian Church, Buffalo, N. Y., to accept a call to 
the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of 
this city, and have been at work here for two years.^ 

"One child living, Seward McKittrick, born No- 
vember 21, 1891. He is rather too young to furnish 
any interesting data. He goes to a private school 
and is filled up on a curriculum reaching all the 
way from cookery to the abstract sciences. A 
large part of his secondary education is carried on 
in a back yard behind the house, where his father 
teaches him the rudimentary rudiments of base- 
ball, with an interest and excitement on the part 
of the boy that sometimes makes his face as red as 
his hair, and awakens fears of an explosion that 
might shatter him back to the primitive nebulosity. 
(See Iverach on 'Evolution and Christianity,' or 
any other book that is close by and deals with the 
general subject of the world as it is, and things as 
they are.) 

"Princeton University ought to expand, and will 
expand until it bumps up against the confines of 
the Unknown and the Unknowable. The only 
thing for a university to do is to keep on expanding, 
not from the wind inside of it, but from the risings 
ideals of educated mankind outside of it and 
above it. 

"Princeton is all right — blooming and booming, 
settled down into her bigger clothes, going into the 

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twentieth century with a very audible whoop and 
gallop, whiskered and bearded, booted and saddled, 
for a splendid struggle with all the social and edu- 
cational problems of the coming age, 

"Life, too, is all right. I cannot find any ob- 
jection to it. I would be willing to go to consid- 
erable personal inconvenience to keep it up. A 
quarter of a century sobers and mellows it, but does 
not pluck the rose of dawn from its breast. The 
faces around us are older but sweeter, grasses and 
flowers are still whispering and singing, and the 
firmament is studded with larger stars. I have not 
yet evolved any sympathy with the grunt of pes- 
simism, and have no intellectual or spiritual fellow- 
ship with the blue-streaked philosophy that crum- 
ples down the glory of world and life into the spec- 
tacle of a triumphant devil leering into the face 
of a defeated God." 

Expressing much regret at his inability to at- 
tend the class supper, McKittrick writes: "Re- 
member me most lovingly to all the boys. God 
bless every one of them." 

In a letter written soon after he took up his resi- 
dence in St. Louis he affirms : "We are happily lo- 
cated here in St. Louis. Good church, good house, 
good health, good spirits, poor bicycling, no climate 
to speak of, but lots of weather, fine residences, 
heaps of mud and quite a Western ozone pervading 
the air. Now and then an itch creeps all over my 
flesh and a little streak of heat runs all through 
my bones to see the East again. We took our last 



vacation in the vicinity of Boston, and favored the 
Atlantic waves with our noisy and hilarious pres- 
ence. We like it very much out here, and find that 
we are carrying the same sky over the top of our 
heads." 

In January, 1898, McKittrick was a guest of the 
Princeton Club of New York at its annual dinner, 
when he delivered a stirring and eloquent address 
on The Alumni. 

At the annual meeting of the Princeton Alumni 
Association of St. Louis, in May last, he was 
elected one of the vice-presidents. 

SAMUEL DAVIS MELTON. Died December 10, 
1880. [See Record No. IV., page 80.] 

REV. PAGE MILBURN, 812 Twentieth Street, 
Northwest, Washington, District of Co- 
lumbia. 

He is in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Five years ago Page was pastor of a 
church in Baltimore. Thence he went to Wash- 
ington, D. C, to the Union M. E. Church, and at 
the recent session of the Annual Conference he was 
reappointed pastor of this church. 

The Christian Advocate of November i, 1900, 
contained an interesting article by Page, entitled 
"The Princeton College Revival in 1876, and Mr. 
Moody's Part in It." 

December 3, 1900, the members of the Union M. 
E. Church tendered Rev. and Mrs. Page Milburn 

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a public reception in celebration of the twentieth 
anniversary of their marriage. Davy and Mrs. 
Perrine were in Washington at the time, on their 
wedding trip, and were welcome guests at the re- 
ception. Let him speak for himself: 

4. "Same as in list given in last Record. My 
son, Joseph W., is taking Latin-scientific course at 
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. ; graduates in 1902, 
taking the four years' course in three years. My 
daughter, Mary E., is a freshman in the Woman's 
College of Baltimore, in the academic course. 

5. "Am satisfied with the thoroughness of the 
work done in the secondary schools of Baltimore 
and Washington, except in the rudimentary 
branches. Reading and penmanship are not taught 
as carefully as they should be. Until this year 
spelling has been neglected in Washington. My 
criticism has been that too many things are taught 
in the public schools, and too much time is devoted 
to some studies. This may be necessary on ac- 
count of the multiplicity of tastes and degrees of 
mental alertness among the tax-payers on the one 
hand and of their offspring on the other. The 
secondary schools are very superior to those I at- 
tended thirty years or more ago. 

6. 'T am not in a position to answer this ques- 
tion. I am proud of Princeton University, proud 
that I am a 'son of Old Nassau.' I hail with de- 
light every good thing coming to Princeton. 

7. "Oh, my! I don't want to preach just now. 
To be good, to do good, to keep a conscience void 

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of offense toward God and man, to have a clear 
hope of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ, 
I am satisfied is the only satisfying life. This after 
an experience of twenty-five years. To be a gen- 
uine Christian is the highest type of manhood and 
the only satisfactory life. A man should be judged 
by what he is, and not by what he says he is, nor 
by what he has." 

JOHN G. MILLER, Market Street and Jackson 
Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. 

"Jack" is full of business, but sends us the follow- 
ing: "Answering the inquiries, I am still without 
title, with a business address at the corner of Jack- 
son Boulevard and Market Street. I have no per- 
sonal history other than such as a business man 
has ; have confined my attention strictly to business. 
Have had no political nor literary aspirations nor 
experiences. Am a member of the Union League, 
Chicago Athletic and Washington Park Clubs. I 
have given no thought to educational subjects, and 
my observations of life have been from a very prac- 
tical standpoint, with such varied experience that 
it would be difficult to answer." 

"Jack" regrets his inability to be at the reunion 
and sends his regards to all the boys and best 
wishes for a good time 

THOMAS A. NOBLE, 508 Diamond Street, Pitts- 
burgh, Pennsylvania. 

"My report will be short, so that you will not 

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have to hold back the Class Record. The reason 
I have not sent it earlier was that J. K. Bryden 
offered to prepare it for me, and fearing that he 
would fail altogether, I concluded to send it to you 
myself. Categorically : 

2. "In the profession of law. Our clients' 
business are professional communications, and, 
therefore, you will excuse me 

6. "I will be able to give you my views after I 
have seen the progress that has been made after 
an absence of five years. 

7. "I believe a busy life is a happy one, and he 
who sets out in life with the determination to do his 
best will succeed. My uneventful career has been 
happy in striving to help those who need my as- 
sistance, whether they were able to pay for the as- 
sistance or not. I have had much pleasure out 
of the past twenty-five years, and the time has 
passed so rapidly I look back to the date when we 
graduated and think of it as being only five or six 
years ago. I feel as young and youthful as then 
and my friends say I have not changed. I still 
wear my freshman moustache, and can sprint as 
well as ever, and am willing to tackle Ed Bonner 
and Judge O. B. again for the amusement of the 
boys. 

9. "Reserve a room for John Cook Latta Pugh 
with me. I want to hear Cook talk free silver for 
a day or two." 



HIKOICHI ORITA, Daisan-Koto-Gakko, Kioto, 
Japan. 

No report. The best we can do is to reproduce 
the last letter received from Orita: 

"Daisan-Koto-Gakko, Kioto, Japan, 

"April 6, 1897. 

"My Dear Mr. Harrison: I thank you very 
much for you have sent to me our class photo- 
graphic book. I was indeed very much pleased to 
see how our old classmates now look, and what 
they are doing. 

"Mr. Robinson, one of our classmates, made to 
me a kind visit by the way of his travel all about 
the world. 

"It was great interesting to me to hear of your- 
self and others. 

"He will tell you all about of myself, for it is 
now getting very difficult to me to write English. 

"I present to you a small cake plate, as only a 
token of my best compliments to you, through the 
kindness of Robinson. Yours ever sincerely, 

"HiKoicHi Orita." 

FREDERICK PARKER, 12 West Main Street, 
Freehold, New Jersey. 

"The only titles I have are those of A. B. and 
A. M., conferred upon me by my Alma Mater. 

"Since my last report I have continued in the 
practice of law at my main office, 12 West Main 
Street, Freehold, N. J., in the building owned by 
D. V. Perrine, and at a branch office. No. 215 Broad- 

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way, Long Branch, N. J. After the passage of the 
National Bankrupt Act by Congress, I was ap- 
pointed by Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick, of the 
United States District Court, Referee in Bank- 
ruptcy for the County of Monmouth, and was re- 
appointed by the same judge, July i, 1900, for the 
term of two years. I have also^ since my last re- 
port, been elected by the Board of Town Commis- 
sioners a member of the Board of Water Commis- 
sioners, and still occupy that office. 

"My literary aspirations have been confined to a 
few addresses delivered at patriotic or religious 
gatherings, with occasional political articles in ad- 
vocacy of the gold standard. As I am a pro- 
nounced opponent of Bryan and Bryanism, I re- 
joice in the fact that the Democratic organization 
of St. Louis has recovered its sanity, evidenced by 
the election of a Gold Democrat, Wells, our class- 
mate, to the office of Mayor. 

"I am a member of the Lawyers' Club, in New 
York City, in addition to the organizations named 
in my last report, of the National Association of 
Referees in Bankruptcy, the Commercial Law 
League and the American Bar Association, and I 
have also been appointed by the National Congress 
of Sons of the American Revolution a member of 
the Committee on Revolutionary Monuments." 

"Polly" is much interested in the Battle Monu- 
ment question, and thinks that the University 
should surely have a voice in the erection of such 
a monument on Princeton's memorable battle- 

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ground. We hope your idea will be carried out, 
Fred, and wish it all success. 

He has "decided views" on the growth and ex- 
pansion of Princeton, but generously keeps them 
to himself. He thinks that Alumni representation 
on the Board of Trustees will greatly promote the 
growth of the University. 

GEORGE DU BOIS PARMLY, M. D. Died De- 
cember 29, 1889. [S^ee Record V., page 56.] 

ROBERT W. PATTERSON, 6016 Howe Street, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Not being able to get any one else to write his 
report for him, "Patt" sat down to do it himself 
about one hour before he was to leave home for 
his summer's outing at Muskoka Lake, Canada. 

He says : "There has been very little change 
since my last report. Pittsburgh is steadily forg- 
ing to the front of American cities, or, I had better 
put it, keeping up with the foremost. Its output 
in steel compares favorably with England. 

"I am very desirous of having both the boys go to 
Princeton, but find it very difficult to interest them 
sufficiently in the preparatory studies. 

"Princeton University is making wonderful prog- 
ress under the guidance of President Patton. One 
cannot fail to notice the interest the recent Alum- 
nus and under-graduate take in the institution, 
but mere enthusiasm and prolonged and continued 
cheering do not do much direct good. Let the 

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afore-mentioned take a more substantial view by 
subscribing to the Alumni Fund. That would be 
a fair test of loyalty. There is some truth in the 
Scotch proverb : *Many a mickle makes a muckle.' " 

DAVID VANDERVEER PERRINE, Freehold, 
New Jersey. 

In the same quiet, self-contained style "Davy" 
writes: "If it were not for the interruptions in 
our lives this life would be to us a long drawn out 
monotony. Half an hour ago I began to write this 
sentence and I have just been allowed to finish it. 
This day in my business is an illustration of what 
my life has been since we graduated twenty-five 
years ago. Yet I have no reason to complain, these 
very interruptions have been an incentive to urge 
me forward — the very essence of success. I am 
sorry I am unable to give any side lights on the 
Book of Proverbs, but so it is." 

"Davy" was married November 29, 1900, to Miss 
Elizabeth Wyckoff Conover. 

We are informed that "Davy" is treasurer of the 
Freehold and Englishtown Turnpike Company, and 
a member of the New Jersey Society of the Amer- 
ican Revolution, the Holland Society and the Na- 
tional Body of Councillors of the American Insti- 
tute of Civics. 

REV. WILLIAM EDGAR PLUMLEY. 

Scranton yesterday lost an exemplary and valued 
citizen by the death of Professor William Edgar 

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Plumley, Head Master of the School of the Lacka- 
wanna. He was a gentleman in every sense of the 
word and a man of remarkably brilliant attain- 
ments. As Head Master of the School of the Lack- 
awanna he contributed immensely to the elevation 
of that institution to its present high plane of ex- 
cellence. As a man among men he taught a beau- 
tiful lesson by the nobleness of his life, and in his 
works as a leader in religious activities he set an 
example that was a model to be followed by any 
man. 

It was as an instructor of youth that Professor 
Plumley will be best remembered. He prepared for 
the profession of teaching at Princeton, graduating 
in the Class of 1876, when he was twenty-five years 
of age. He married in that same year Mrs. Mary 
Trask, eldest daughter of Rev. T. M. Cann, Principal 
of the School of the Lackawanna, and taught in Dr. 
Cann's school for two years. For four years he was 
Latin Master in Lawrenceville School, and later 
filled a similar position at Dr. Lyon's Classical 
School on Fifth Avenue, New York City. He re- 
turned to Scranton in 1896, and resumed his place 
in the School of the Lackawanna, serving as its 
Head Master. 

He was a son of Rev. Gardiner Spring Plumley, 
D, D., and was a native of New York City. He 
was himself a lay preacher, and for some time has 
regularly filled the pulpit of the Presbyterian 
Church at Taylor. For several months he has also 
been heard in the Sumner Avenue Presbyterian 

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W. E. Plumley 



A K. RlLEY 





H. R. SCHENCK 



De L. Wardlaw 



Church, West Scranton, preaching at Taylor on 
Sabbath morning and at the latter in the evening. 

He is survived by his widow and six children. 
The children are Howard, Stuart, Gardiner, Mary, 
Margaret and Sallie. 

(Scranton paper, May 15, 1901.) 

Simple but impressive services were conducted 
over the remains of Head Master W. E. Plumley, of 
the School of the Lackawanna, in the First Presby- 
terian Church yesterday afternoon. The church 
was filled with friends and former pupils, the School 
of the Lackawanna being present in a body. Rev. 
Drs. Logan, McLeod and Robinson preceded the 
casket, which was borne to a place before the altar 
by six of his former pupils — Messrs. James W. Oak- 
ford, Thomas Moore, Harry Kingsbury, Selden 
Kingsbury, Robert M. Scranton and Walter Briggs. 

After a prayer by Dr. Logan, who had been as- 
sociated with the deceased in church work during 
his residence in Scranton, Dr. McLeod, pastor of 
the church of which Mr. Plumley was an elder, paid 
a fitting tribute to his memory. In his remarks he 
quoted many verses from the Old and New Testa- 
ments telling of the future life and the home of the 
redeemed. 

In the Epistle to the Romans we read, "In all 
these things we are more than conquerors through 
Him that loved us. For I am persuaded that nei- 
ther death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, 
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall 

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be able to separate us from the love of God, which is 
in Christ Jesus, our Lord." 

Of Mr. Plumley the doctor said that he came 
of good stock, and there was something in blood. 
His father was a minister of the Gospel who kept 
the faith and lies in Metuchen, N. J., where we will 
take our friend to-morrow. 

He would have liked to become an ordained 
minister, but his profession was to teach. Never- 
theless, since he had been in Scranton he had been 
preaching in struggling churches. The speaker de- 
clared that no man in the city would care less to 
have a eulogy pronounced over him than Professor 
Plumley, as in his own opinion he had done only his 
duty. 

Speaking to the school. Dr. McLeod said that they 
had suffered a great loss. He had taught both by 
precept, and, what was more important, example. 
The church will miss him, the pupils will miss him 
and the city will miss him. 

Dr. McLeod then read the resolutions adopted 
by the session of the church. They are as follows: 

William Edgar Plumley was received into the 
membership of this church September 9, 1896, and 
was ordained and installed as a ruling elder May 
2, 1897. He was called to his rest on the 14th 
inst., and died surrounded by his devoted family at 
his home on Quincy Avenue, after a very short ill- 
ness, at peace with God through our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

Session out of a full heart makes record of the 

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unselfish devotion of our beloved brother to the 
work of the Master, both in this church and as op- 
portunity oflfered or duty called, in the general work 
of Christian Endeavor in our city and elsewhere. 

His sweetness of disposition, kindness of spirit 
and wide range of information made him a welcome 
visitor in time of trouble or of joy in the house- 
holds of God's people, and his willingness for ser- 
vice found expression far beyond his strength in 
ministerial labors in our struggling churches and 
mission fields, and this, too, even during his vaca- 
tions. 

Elder Plumley was a godly man whose life was 
lived by faith in the Son of God, and in his home, 
in the church, in society, and as a citizen no one 
questioned his . absolute sincerity and Christian 
character. 

He was a man of high ideals ; he loved nature and 
books and the beautiful and noble. He loved the 
association of good people and was the companion 
of all those who feared God. 

He was licensed to preach the Gospel by the 
Presbytery of Elizabeth, N. J., and while his duties 
as Head Master of the School of the Lackawanna 
absorbed much of his time and energy, he still found 
time for efficient service in the churches of our Pres- 
bytery, and was by it appointed to supply the pul- 
pits of the churches of Taylor and Sumner Avenue, 
where his services won for him the love and respect 
of the people and were blessed of God to their edi- 
fication and growth in grace. 

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He was an exceedingly tender-hearted man, 
strong in his sense of right and free in his expres- 
sions of hatred for wrong and evil, still his merciful 
disposition made him tender and full of sympathy 
toward wrong doers. 

We mourn the loss of our brother. We shall miss 
his warm greeting and his ever ready help. We 
shall miss him in the prayer meetings, where he has 
often led our worship, but our consolation is in Him 
whose he was and whom he served. 

We commend the widow and the fatherless to our 
covenant-keeping God with the earnest prayer for 
their comfort in the precious promise, "I will never 
leave thee nor forsake thee." 

The services were concluded with prayer by Dr. 
Robinson and the singing of "Nearer My God to 
Thee" by John T. Watkins. The space inside the 
chancel rail was filled with beautiful floral tributes 
from the School of the Lackawanna, organizations 
of which he was a member and from friends. A 
quartette consisting of Mrs. Alfred Connell, Mrs. 
W. J. Hand, Dr. George DeWitt and John T. Wat- 
kins sang impressively during the services. 

ALUMNI RESOLUTIONS. 

The following resolutions were adopted yesterday 
at a meeting of the Alumni of the School of the 
Lackawanna, presided over by Mr. J. W. Oakford : 

Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in his 
great wisdom to remove from our midst Professor 

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W. E. Plumley, for many years a teacher in and 
Head Master of the School of the Lackawanna, 
and 

Whereas, The Alumni of the School of the Lack- 
awanna have received the news of his death with 
great sorrow and have assembled this i6th day of 
May, A. D. 1901, for the purpose of expressing in 
some fitting manner their profound grief at the loss 
which they and the community have sustained. Be 
it, therefore 

Resolved, That we take this opportunity to ex- 
press our great appreciation and admiration of him 
as a man and a teacher. 

We respect him for what he was: a man of high 
Christian ideas; of lofty and exalted purposes; of 
loving and tender disposition, kind, gracious and 
benevolent. 

We honor him for what he did. In his modest, 
unostentatious manner he assisted those who needed 
his help; he elevated those with whom he came in 
contact; he encouraged all to better deeds and a 
more honest, upright life; he aided the poor and 
needy ; he used his talents, his time and his treasure 
for the uplifting of mankind. And, be it further 

Resolved, That we condole with the members of 
the School of the Lackawanna and those who have 
felt the influences of his noble Christian character 
and benign and wholesome personality, in this, their 
great deprivation. And, be it further 

Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy 
to the family to whom he has been a devoted hus- 

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band and a kind and loving father, in this, their 
sad bereavement. And, be it further 

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon 
the minutes of this association and that a copy there- 
of be sent to his sorrowing family. 

R. M. SCRANTON, 
W. E. GUNSTER, 

W. J. Taney Torrey. 
Committee. 
The Scranton Republican, May 17, 1901. 

A whole-souled personality characterized our 
classmate, William Edgar Plumley. He was ever 
ready to give prodigally of his best — of his thought, 
of his sympathy, of his friendship, of his hospitality. 
He was a Christian gentleman, considerate of others' 
feelings, and deferring to others' opinions ; he 
was roused to righteous indignation in the presence 
of all forms of oppression and cruelty toward man 
or beast, and showed the chivalrous spirit of his 
New England ancestors, who strove with tongue 
and pen and sword for the rights of the individual. 

He was public spirited. He served two years in the 
National Guard of Pennsylvania. He was licensed 
to preach by the Presbytery of Elizabeth, New 
Jersey, October 8, 1890. He was an enthusiastic 
and tireless teacher, with a rare gift of clear 
presentment and of adding interest to whatever 
subject he taught. His sterling traits of helpfulness 
and thoroughness in his work, united to sound 

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learning, made him exceptionally popular with his 
pupils. 

After years of bravely meeting heavy responsi- 
bilities, from which he never shirked, he was sum- 
moned heavenward from his many activities at a 
time when he had made "adversity a winning 
fight." Such a life is a solution of the problem of 
living. He had 

"The faith that life on earth is being shaped 
"To glorious ends, that order, justice, love, 
"Mean man's completeness, mean effect as sure 
"As roundnesss in the dew-drop." 
"The faith that looks through death." 

E. D. L. 
JOHN C. L. PUGH, io8 1-2 South High Street, 
Columbus, Ohio. 
Cook opens his letter with the following slight 
list of affiliations : "Late Captain Company A, 
Pugh Videttes, Fourteenth Regiment, O. N. G. ; 
Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Junia Hussars, 
Troop No. I, I .0. O. F. ; Member Junia Lodge, No. 
474, I. O. O. F. ; Junia Encampment, No. 276, I. O. 
O. F. ; Champion Lodge, No. 581, K. P.; Columbus 
Lodge, No. 37, B. P. O. E. ; Opecancanough Tribe, 
No. 163, I. O. R. M. ; Buckeye Fishing Club. 

"Was State Senator from this District, Tenth, in 
the Seventy-third General Assembly. 

"As to Princeton, permit me to say that her 
strength for the present and future, in my judg- 
ment, lies not more in the accumulation of large 
endowments at the hands of multi-millionaires 

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than in the might of her glorious past and the 
hearty co-operation of all her sons. 

"If my experience in life has taught me any- 
thing it is this : That economists may reason out 
political and social problems according to exact 
principles of justice, but they are solved by the 
people, each one according to his own individual 
interest. 

"If not able to be at the reunion, I shall at mid- 
night take a silent toast to Old '76." 

REV. HARRIS G. RICE, Monticello, Indiana. 

"Have been hard at work preaching now since 
1880 at Jefferson, la.. Seven Mile, O., Delphi, Ind., 
and Monticello, Ind. In the last named place for 
seven years. Am now stated Clerk and Treasurer 
of the Presbytery of Logansport and Permanent 
Clerk of the Synod of Indiana. Visitor to Lane 
Seminary this year from the Synod and Commis- 
sioner to the Assembly in Philadelphia, where I 
was one of the temporary clerks. The local clubs 
of this town receive from time to time my best 
literary efforts and my best attentions. 

"I was far more full of theories about eighteen 
years ago than I am now. Princeton is in good 
hands. Life is full of hard and most attractive 
work for the man who is not afraid to plunge into 
it. The prizes are many, and Princeton men are 
getting their full share of them all. Princeton, 
both in her intellectual and spiritual life, was a 

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great uplift to me, I assure you. I can never re- 
pay her real help to me." 

Under date of June 20 "Dan" writes : 
"I was greatly disappointed in not being with 
you at the dinner. I had all my plans made to be 
present, when, on the afternoon of June 9, in Mont- 
clair, N. J., I was summoned home to the funeral 
of a brother Presbyterian minister in our congre- 
gation here in Monticello. I was so sorry about it, 
and I came past old Princeton and cast longing 
eyes over the fields, and thought of you all. My re- 
turn was so sudden and so unexpected that I did 
not even have time to write a note and send some 
hearty greetings to you." 

CHANDLER W. RIKER, 164 Market Street, 
Newark, New Jersey. 
No report. He sent word that he would attend 
the Class Dinner, but failed to be present. 

ALDEN KELLOGG RILEY, 1417 Twelfth Street, 
Des Moines, Iowa. 

He is manager of the Loan Department of the 
National Life and Trust Company, has no change 
to report in regard to his family, but says that the 
world has been treating him very nicely for the 
last four years, and he has no complaint to make. 
He and Chaifee, it will be noticed, are near neigh- 
bors. 

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REV. EDWIN P. ROBINSON, Dauphin, Penn- 
sylvania, or Orchard Park, Erie County, 
New York. 

"Robbie" is still preaching at Orchard Park, New 
lYork, and has sent the following interesting letter : 

"Since my last report there have been no changes 
that would alter my status, professionally, political- 
ly, matrimonially, hence 'I'm just the same.' But 
I am constrained to supplement my usually brief 
reports with a few details of the delightful trip I 
was about entering upon when they last heard from 
me, as that gives me an opportunity to say some- 
thing of 'yd in the far off parts of the world, 

"In company with Professor A. Guyot Cameron 
I left New York in April, 1896, for a trip through 
Belgium and Holland, and then into France. After 
reaching Paris and spending some time there we 
parted. Professor Cameron remaining to do some 
work in connection with his department, he was 
then at Yale, and I went into Switzerland, and 
thence made a trip into Italy as far as Rome, Ven- 
ice and Naples. Then around Germany, Saxony, 
and, finally, via Paris, to England, Scotland and 
Ireland. In the latter country I visited Blarney 
Castle and kissed the Blarney stone several times. 

"Leaving London September 17 by steamer I 
started on my trip through the Mediterranean, 
stopping at Malta and touching at Brindisi. Chang- 
ing steamers at Port Said, I went north and entered 
Syria at Beyroot, then to Damascus, and later 
through the Holy Land to most of the places as- 

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sociated with the life and work of our Saviour. 
From Jaffa I returned to Port Said, and thence 
went to Cairo and the Pyramids. I left Port Said 
by steamer for Bombay, India, visited the Wilders 
and other friends south of Bombay, and crossed 
India by rail from Bombay to Calcutta, stopping 
at Delhi, Agra and Benares. 

"From Calcutta I went to Colombo, Ceylon, and 
visited the interior of that wondrously beautiful 
island as far as Kandy. By invitation of American 
friends I spent the Christmas holidays at Conoor, 
South India, crossed over to Madras by rail and 
then returned to Colombo. Taking steamer from 
there I passed through the straits, and after touch- 
ing at Singapore, turned north to Hong Kong, but 
only tarried a short time, for I hastened on to Can- 
ton to see dear Fulton. Fellows, we may well be 
proud of him. 

"When I was making my plans for leaving he 
said : 'Robbie, if you only stay over another 
steamer I will take you on a river trip, so that you 
may see somewhat of our work at the cities and vil- 
lages up the river, about two hundred miles.' I 
did not hesitate, and replied that I would gladly 
wait till the next steamer. I wish you could all 
have been with me to see some of the grand results 
that noble^ earnest fellow has been accomplishing 
for Christ's Kingdom in that part of China — 
churches, chapels and dispensaries, hundreds and 
hundreds of native converts and workers. In sev- 
eral places where we held services I sat at the 

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Lord's table with many happy and hopeful native 
Christians. Fellows, I must make the appeal here 
that '76 have a hand in the settlement of the affairs 
of China that will make most for her highest ad- 
vancement and return richest blessings upon us 
all. If there are those that cannot support a mis- 
sionary, there are none that cannot either have a 
native Bible woman or preacher working for them 
at an expense of from fifteen to thirty dollars per 
year. Fulton ought to hear from us after our 'Sil- 
ver Jubilee.' Then, too, there is Lowrie, whom I 
could not see because I could not get farther north 
than Shanghai, as the weather was not favorable 
at that season. But you all know how heroically 
he has been laboring these years, and how bravely 
he with others endured the siege at Pekin. I re- 
cently met a man lately come from China, and this 
is the tribute he paid him when he found I was 
a classmate : 'He is one of the truest, noblest 
Christian men.' And we all say yes. I bespeak for 
Lowrie in his work such co-operation and encour- 
agement as we may give our Fulton. And while 
on this line I must not forget those other noble fel- 
lows in Persia and Turkey, Sam Wilson and 
Chambers. They are laboring faithfully and suc- 
cessfully. Then, again, we are in Brazil and Mex- 
ico, through Wardlaw and Hike Hamilton. Oh, '76 
is a grand power to the ends of the earth, 

"From China I passed through Japan's inland 
sea, and reaching Yokohama, went thence to Tokyo 
and south by rail to Kyoto, where I spent a few 

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days very delightfully with Orita and his family. 
I met his wife and seven children. He inquired 
most kindly for his classmates and has most gen- 
erous and pleasant remembrances of college days. 
He was principal of the High School and was hop- 
ing to be head of the splendid new university that 
was being erected in the city. Some of the build- 
ings were already completed. I finally left Yoko- 
hama, and, touching at Honolulu, arrived at San 
Francisco. After a few days in California I came 
east, and arrived home safely, having had unin- 
terrupted good health and verifying in every partic- 
ular Psalm 121." 

"Robbie" greatly regretted his inability to attend 
the reunion of 1901, where he was "pretty sure you 
all had a right royal time." 

ROBERT J. ROSS. Died April 10, 1879. [See 
Record No. IV., page 93.] 

WILBER F. RUDY, Collamer, Stanley County, 
South Dakota. 

He has been engaged in horse and cattle rais- 
ing. Lately he has closed out both lines, and is 
at present undecided what to do next, though he 
prefers live stock. Omitting questions 3, 4, 5 and 
6, under 7 he says: "Life is like 'intense commer- 
cialism' in a menial capacity." 

HENRY M. RUSSELL, 39 Broadway, New York 
City. 
"I have no additional titles tacked on to my name 

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since the last report, but remain the same as before. 

"My history since last report has been quiet and 
without anything occurring in it of marked interest. 
I have devoted my time to the practice of my pro- 
fession and am still 'on deck.' Nothing great or 
striking to chronicle, but merely the every day in- 
cidents of an ordinary life. I have taken some little 
interest in political matters, as I feel it to be the 
duty of every man so to do. I have not engaged 
in any literary work, nor have I published any- 
thing. I am a member of the Citizens' and of the 
Crescent Athletic Club, 

"I am still a member of the Brotherhood of Bach- 
elors, so cannot give you any extended answers to 
questions Nos. 4 and 5. 

"As to the future of Princeton University, I fer- 
vently hope and trust that she will continue to 
grow and expand, even more rapidly than she has 
in the past. She cannot either halt or drift, or she 
will be out of the race. Certainly there are no 
signs but good ones at present, and her interests 
are in the hands and keeping of men who know 
her needs and will not hesitate or fail to most care- 
fully conserve them. Just what professional 
schools could be successfully established is some- 
what difficult to determine at present, but I have 
no doubt tliat the problem will be solved, and that, 
too, for the best interests of the University. A,s 
to the 'observations' and 'side lights,' that is a little 
too ponderous for me to tackle in such weather as 

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this, so will call 'quits' and leave these matters for 
some of the other boys." 

REV. HARRIS ROGERS SCHENCK. 

Roelof Schenck van Nydeck was born in the 
Province of Utrecht, Holland, in 1619, and came 
to Nieu Amsterdam in the ship "de Valckener," ar- 
riving June 28, 1650. In 1660 he married Neeltje 
van Couwenhoven, at what is now Flatlands, Long 
Island, where he then resided. 

Garrett Schenck, a son of Roelof, moved to Mon- 
mouth County, New Jersey, in 1696. In 1737 he, 
with his cousin, John van Couwenhoven, purchased 
of John Penn several thousand acres at Penn's 
Neck, near Princeton, N. J. Farms were given to 
the children of the two families, and the family cem- 
etery was set apart. Of this cemetery, now no 
longer used as a burying place, Harris Schenck 
was one of the trustees at the time of his death. 

Joseph Schenck, grandson of Garrett and great- 
grandfather of Harris, located at Princeton, and 
built the Schenck Homestead. Here Harris's 
grandfather and father were born. Rev. William 
E. Schenck, D. D., the father of Harris, after grad- 
uating from Princeton College and Princeton Semi- 
nary, married Jane Whittemore Torrey, daughter 
of William Torrey, and niece of John Torrey, 
LL. D., of Princeton College. He served with ac- 
ceptance in several pastorates, including the First 
Presbyterian Church of Princeton, of which his 

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father was an elder and trustee, and his uncle at 
one time a pastor. 

Harris Rogers Schenck, the youngest of eight 
children, was born February 27, 1856, in Philadel- 
phia, where his father was at that time serving the 
Church as Secretary of its Board of Publication. 
About two weeks after his birth the home was 
darkened by the death of his mother. 

His early education was obtained in the city of 
Philadelphia. At the age of thirteen he confessed 
his faith in Christ and became a communicant in 
the West Spruce Street Presbyterian Church. 

In September, 1872, he entered Princeton Col- 
lege. He was then sixteen years old, tall, slen- 
der, smooth-faced, more than ordinarily boyish in 
appearance and innocence. He soon became 
known among his fellow students as a careful and 
diligent scholar, whose chief characteristics were 
persistence and thoroughness. He early took a 
high standing in his class and maintained it 
throughout his course. From the beginning of his 
college career he was a consistent Christian, and 
a youth of severe and high ideals. 

It was while he was a senior in college that the 
revival of 1876 came with its great spiritual bless- 
ing and its far-reaching consequences to Princeton 
College. Schenck was active in the work of that 
revival, taking part in the public meetings in the 
college, speaking with his fellow students in pri- 
vate and going out with the delegations which 

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were sent to the neighboring churches in country 
and city. It was while he was on his way to meet 
one of these appointments, and while walking on 
the platform at Princeton Junction with one of his 
classmates, that he distinctly decided to devote his 
life to the Gospel ministry, a decision and an hour 
to which he frequently referred in after years as 
one of the most blessed of his experience. 

Upon graduating from College he became tutor 
in the Preparatory School at Princeton. While 
working in this capacity he suffered a severe at- 
tack of inflammatory rheumatism, the dregs of 
which were a heart affection from which he never 
fully recovered, and which at last proved fatal. 
This sickness made a trip to Florida necessary. 
He was in the habit of saying that that trip did 
him a world of good, as he threw all his rheuma- 
tism into the Atlantic between New York and Sa- 
vannah. 

In the fall of 1877 he entered Princeton Theologi- 
cal Seminary, where he took a four years' course. 
On June 7, 1881, he was ordained by the Presby- 
tery of Westchester and installed as pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church of Mahopac Falls, New York. 
On the 30th of the following August he was mar- 
ried to Miss Minnie Hollister, of Bridgeport, Conn. 
The first great sorrow that came into his life was 
when, on the 12th of the following June, his wife 
and infant child were taken from his side and en- 
tered into rest. 

On February 26, 1884, he was married to Miss 
gg 



Mary A. Smith, of Bronxville, N. Y., who, with 
their daughter Elsie, survives him. In 1887 Mr. 
Schenck was installed by the Presbytery of West- 
chester pastor of the Mt. Kisco Presbyterian 
Church. Here he continued until he was called to 
the pastorate of the Falling Spring Church of Cham- 
bersburg, in 1892. This was his last pastorate, for 
it was while he was faithfully serving this church 
that he was stricken with his last and fatal illness. 
About the first of April, 1898, he began to suffer 
from an unusually aggravated attack of his old- 
time heart trouble. However, he attended the 
spring meeting of Presbytery, held in the early part 
of that month in the Harrisburg Westminster 
Church. 

He was unable to read the^paper on "Propor- 
tionate Giving," which he had prepared by request 
of the Committee of Arrangements. It was read 
for him, and was so highly regarded by the Presby- 
tery that it was proposed to publish it. At the final, 
session the Assembly's Overture on the Amend- 
ment to the Form of Government making the Dea- 
cons the Trustees of the Church was up for con- 
sideration. Schenck had prepared an elaborate ar- 
gument favoring the Overture, and, notwithstand- 
ing his feeble condition, he read his written arraign- 
ment of the policy of secular trustees and gave rea- 
sons for ordained men managing the temporal af- 
fairs of the Church. It was a paper that showed to 
good advantage his technical familiarity with the 
policy and practice of the Presbyterian Church in 

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all its branches, and was regarded by all, including 
those who disagreed with him, as a remarkably- 
strong argument for his position. This was the 
last service he performed for the Church. Almost 
immediately after he finished the Presbytery ad- 
journed and he returned to the home of his fellow 
presbyter where he always stayed when in Harris- 
burg. The evening previous his heart had worked 
badly and caused alarm, but he rallied. He was now 
evidently greatly exhausted. That afternoon he 
went to his home in Chambersburg, intending to 
start at once upon a short vacation. But the Master 
had other plans for him. Upon reaching home he 
went to bed, to suffer much pain, and to linger for 
weeks with alternating hope of recovery and 
anticipation of death. In June he was strong 
enough to go to his wife's home in Bronxville, New 
York, in the hope that a change of place might 
improve his health. 

He realized the serious nature of his malady and 
spoke with the utmost composure of its possible 
fatal termination. For a few days he rallied from 
the fatigue of the journey, and his persistent good 
cheer led our hearts to hope for better things than 
we feared. But the improvement was only tem- 
porary. He began to fail, and the best skill and the 
tenderest care were unavailing to stay the fatal de- 
cline. 

On Tuesday, June 21, 1898, he peacefully fell on 
sleep, sustained and sustaining others by the firm 
assurance of a blessed immortality and a glorious 



resurrection. On the following Thursday funeral 
services were held in Bronxville, in the home of 
his wife's father, Dr. Smith, where he died. The 
remains were borne to Princeton, N. J., where in 
the afternoon further services were held in the 
presence of a large congregation in the First Pres- 
byterian Church. The interment was in Princeton 
Cemetery, by the side of his own beloved dead. 

Schenck was a man of marked personality. His 
tall, stalwart frame attracted attention in any com- 
pany. His incisive and assertive expression of 
views, held with great clearness and expressed 
without hesitation, always won the attention of his 
associates and quickly drew the fire of his oppon- 
ents. No one who knew him could fail to be im- 
pressed with his intense conscientiousness. With 
him it was enough to know that a certain course 
was right. 

His bent of mind was legal, and this gave him 
a great fondness for the law of the church. Prob- 
ably no man in the Presbyterian Church of his 
years, and few men of any years, were as familiar 
as he with the law and usage of his Church. He 
kept himself 7ully informed of all cases in our ec- 
clesiastical courts and decisions of our General As- 
sembly, and was a repository of exact and minute 
information regarding all ecclesiastical procedure. 

Another characteristic of Brother Schenck was 
his passion for souls. His letters, his conversation 
and his prayers were full of the desire to bring men 
into relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. He 



was most unselfish in his work and desired nothing 
but to build up the church and every member of it 
in righteousness. He was truly a minister, not 
asking to be served, but to serve. He delighted in 
the work of an evangelist, and ever responded with 
alacrity to the frequent calls of his brethren to come 
and help them in special services. Almost his last 
work was his visitation by appointment of Presby- 
tery to the Market Square Church of Harrisburg, 
where he conducted for the last two weeks of 
March evangelistic services. 

Another characteristic of Schenck was his schol- 
arly tastes. He was too active a pastor to devote 
much time to writing, and there are left but few 
products of his pen. Chief among these are: "A 
History of the Falling Spring Presbyterian 
Church," an article in the Southern Presbyterian 
Quarterly on "The Office of Elder in the Old Tes- 
tament," occasional sermons printed by request, 
and occasional articles in our religious papers upon 
topics of the times. 

As a pastor he was faithful. His ministries to 
the sick, the dying, the afflicted, were always wise 
and consoling. His care for the little children was 
thoughtful. He spared no pains. He never saved 
himself. Indeed, if he could have lived with less 
intensity and less unsparing devotion to his daily 
tasks he might have lived much longer. While in 
the fullness of his powers he was called to larger 
life and a higher service. 

[Extracts from an article presented to the Pres- 
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bytery of Carlisle, April, 1889, by George B. 
Stewart.] 

It is a special privilege for me to offer to my 
classmates this tribute of most loving, intimate and 
long-continued friendship to one who was so wor- 
thy of our respect, esteem and affection, and who 
was ever an honor to his class, a credit to his Alma 
Mater and a faithful minister in the Church of 
Christ. Our close friendship and intimacy began 
at our first meeting when I entered college. Be- 
cause of this there is, perhaps, no one of the fellows 
who knew more of the inner life of Harris and 
appreciated more fully those qualities that go to 
make the true and noble Christian man that he 
was. You all know well his mental ability and his 
record as a student, but more than these was his 
moral and spiritual life, which so deeply impressed 
and helped me. He was singularly generous- 
hearted, manly and pure-minded. In all the close 
relations I was permitted to sustain with him in 
college and seminary, and then in his home life 
with his family, he was ever an inspiration to purity 
of thought and earnestness of purpose towards the 
best things of life that would promise good to all. 

A few years ago we were spending a day in Buf- 
falo, N. Y., and we attended one of the meetings 
Mr. Moody was then holding there. When we en- 
tered the hall Mr. Moody was at once attracted by 
his striking appearance, and calling me to him 
asked who he was, and then invited him to take 

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part in the devotional services. And so, wherever 
he might be, "he could not be hid." 

His character and work were those of the Mas- 
ter. I am glad for his friendship. I am grateful 
for his love. I am thankful for his help to me, and 
I know the fellows of 'y() whom he loved will ap- 
preciate this sincere but inadequate tribute of his 
friend and classmate. 

The funeral services were in the First Presby- 
terian Church of Princeton, and were conducted by 
Stewart, who made a most fitting address. He and 
I were the only classmates present. The interment 
was in Princeton's Westminster Abbey. 

E. P. R. 

GEORGE D. SCUD0ER, Room 14, Damarin 
Block, Portsmouth, Ohio. 

"I have little of interest to record in the last 
five years. I am still practising law in Portsmouth. 
I was recently elected a trustee of Wooster Uni- 
versity and I was a Commissioner to the General 
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which met 
at Minneapolis in 1899. I met Symmes and Beach, 
also Harrison Clarke. 

3. "Married, November 20, 1879, to H. Helen 
Damarin. 

4. "One child, Charles Damarin Scudder, who, I 
hope, will enter Princeton in 1902." 

REV. L. J. SHOEMAKER, Marietta, Ohio. 

"I closed my pastorate at Clarion, Pa., in the fall 
of 1896, and accepted a call to Muncy, Pa. I re- 

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mained at this place till the fall of 1899, when I 
resigned and moved to Marietta, Ohio. At pres- 
ent I am preaching for the Lawrence and Lowell 
Baptist Churches, Ohio. 

"I have one boy in Marietta College. He has 
finished freshman year in the classical course, but 
if I lived in Princeton instead of Marietta, he would 
attend Princeton." 

FRANKLIN BUCHANAN SMITH, M. D., Fred- 
erick, Maryland. 

"Physician and Surgeon to Montivue Hospital, 
Frederick County, Maryland ; member of the Medi- 
cal and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, member 
of the Maryland State Licensing Board, Baltimore 
and Ohio Railroad Medical Association, Surgeon to 
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Medical Exam- 
iner of the Mutual Life and New York Mutual Life 
Insurance Companies, Northwestern of Milwaukee 
and State Mutual of Massachusetts, member of the 
American Medical Association, etc. 

"My wife and children are still living, and no 
more of the latter have been born to me. 

"I have a son who entered the Freshman class at 
Princeton in the fall of 1900, then decided to take 
up the study of medicine at once, and has now com- 
pleted his first year in the Medical Department oi 
the University of Maryland. 

"My views on growth and expansion of Prince- 
ton are more wishes than views — that she may 
grow rapidly and solidly to as great dimensions as 
are consistent with permanence and symmetry. 

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**My observation on life after twenty-five years 
is, that with all its trials and tribulations it has 
been one worth living. In the main, all of it has 
been pleasant and, so far as my merits have de- 
served, has been successful. It has been free from 
most of the disappointments which sour and dis- 
gust so many." 

FRANK S. SMITH, Warwick, Orange County, 
New York. 

"I am Secretary of our Village Board of Health 
and manager of the Warwick Valley Light and 
Power Company. My oldest daughter attends the 
Convent School of St. Mary's, at Peekskill, N. Y. 
May every blessing be vouchsafed my classmates 
one and all." 

REV. J. A. LIVINGSTON SMITH, 24 North 
Pine Street, York, Pennsylvania. 

"My life during the past five years has been spent 
in a vain effort to recover my health through a 
complete retirement and suspension of ministerial 
labors and a patient endurance of the Lord's afflict- 
ing hand. Meantime, I have given myself to the 
care of my family and to the education of my chil- 
dren, that they may be fitted to take up my life's 
work and carry it on even more successfully than I 
could have done it in any other way. For that pur- 
pose I have recently removed to this city, where 
I have placed them in better schools than the coun- 
try afforded. 

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"I am always happy to avail myself of any op- 
portunity to promote the cause to which I gave 
my life and heart, and I find many such opportun- 
ities from my location in this thriving city. 

"Since October last I have been able to preach 
occasionally without suffering as much as for- 
merly. 

"The two oldest children are in the second and 
third years, respectively, of the York Collegiate 
Institute. For the first time in all these years have 
my children had the advantages of schools worthy 
the name. 

"Twenty-five years of observation and experience 
have only confirmed the teachings of former years, 
that life is only worth the living when consecrated 
to the glorification of our God in the loving service 
of our fellow man. Better never to have lived 
than to have lived for self and time. The Christian 
life is the only life — all else is but a fruitless, waste- 
ful, sinful existence." 

MOSES ALLEN STARR, M. D., 5 West Fifty- 
fourth Street, New York City. 

"Degrees: A. B., A. M., M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., 
(1899) Princeton. 

2. "I have been pursuing the practice of medi- 
cine in the department of nervous diseases, and 
lecturing regularly as Professor of Neurology at 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical 
Department of Columbia University. 

"I have made frequent contributions to medical 

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literature, among others articles on spinal cord dis- 
eases, in the Loomis Thompson System of Medicine, 
published in Philadelphia, and in the Clifford-AU- 
butt System of Medicine, published in London. 

"I have, voted for McKinley and Roosevelt, but 
without any enthusiasm, as I am a mugwump. 

"I was given the honorary degree LL. D. by 
Princeton in 1899. Am member of the University, 
Century, Princeton, Nineteenth Century and Ec- 
wanock Golf Clubs." 

He is also Consulting Physician to the Presby- 
terian, Orthopaedic, St. Mary's and St. Vincent's 
Hospitals, and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary; 
author of "Familiar Forms of Nervous Diseases," 
"Brain Surgery," which has been translated into 
several languages, and "An Atlas of Nerve Cells;" 
Associate Editor of "Psychological Review" and of 
"Journal of Mental and Nervous Diseases." 

He is also a member of the New York Academy 
of Sciences, New York Academy of Medicine (Cor- 
responding Secretary), New York Neurological So- 
ciety, American Neurological Association (Presi- 
dent 1897-1898), and Association of American Phy- 
sicians. 

3. "I was married June 8, 1898, to Miss Alice 
Dunning, of New York, a sister of Frank Dunning. 

6. "I believe in the development of the post- 
graduate school at Princeton, in the development 
of the Seminar work, and am strongly opposed 
to the establishment of law or medical departments 
in, or in connection with, Princeton. 

7. "I wish I were younger." 

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REV. ALEXANDER RUSSELL STEVENSON, 
D. D., 6 Union Street, Schenectady, New 
York. 

"I have been pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church of this place since April i, 1888. I received 
the degree of D. D. from Union College, Schenec- 
tady, in June, 1900. I have published a booklet, 
'The Gates of Death and Their Keys.' 

4. "One child born since last report, Stuart Rid- 
dle, November 14, 1896. 

"My oldest son is at the Hill School, Pottstown, 
Pa., preparing for the classical course." 

REV. GEORGE BLACK STEWART, D. D., 182 
North Street, Auburn, New York. 

"Since my last report I have had but little his- 
tory and fewer honors. In May, 1899, ^ was chosen 
the second president of Auburn Theological Semi- 
nary, to succeed the late Rev. Dr. Henry M. Booth. 
I resigned the charge of Market Square Presby- 
terian Church, where I had been pastor for fifteen 
years of as kind a people and as fine a church as 
was ever given a man to serve, and accepted this 
new position. I greatly enjoy educational work, 
and find congenial my new duties in the best theo- 
logical seminary in the country." 

The inauguration of "Paley" as President and 
Professor of Practical Theology came September 
12.2, 1899, and among those who delivered addresses 
were Dr. Patton of Princeton, Rev. Charles Cuth- 
bert Hall, D. D., President of Union Theological 

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Seminary, and Rev. Maltbie D. Babcock, D. D. 
"Paley" delivered an address on "The Place of the 
Minister in the Present-Day Church." Every '76 
man wishes him the greatest success in this new 
and important field of usefulness. 

Besides being a Trustee of Princeton University, 
"Paley" is a Trustee of the Wilson College for 
Women, Chambersburg, Pa., and Trustee of the 
United Society of Christian Endeavor. 

3. "I am still married to the best woman in the 
world. 

4. "My eldest child, Helen, is a junior in Bryn 
Mawr College, pursuing the full course in that in- 
stitution. My second child, Harris Bates, is an 
academic sophomore in Princeton University and is 
the first '76 boy to enter Princeton. 

5. "My impression is that secondary education is 
far more sane than when I was passing through 
that stage of my education, and that it is now better 
co-ordinated with the college curriculum than it 
was then. 

6. "Princeton University is growing at a marvel- 
ous rate and has already become one of the great 
universities of the land. I believe the true policy 
is to promote its advance along its traditional lines. 
The undergraduate academic course must remain 
its determining characteristic. Its graduate school 
ought to be energetically developed, so as to make 
the university increasingly attractive to students de- 
siring to pursue graduate studies. But Princeton's 
chief work must be for undergraduate students. 

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7. "Life is a school, with its hard lessons, delight- 
ful fellowships, valuable experiences, splendid train- 
ing for some post-graduate service. In this school 
diligence in performing task, fidelity to duty, sub- 
mission to authority, joy in work, patient waiting 
for results, hopeful anticipation of Commencement 
honors and post-Commencement home-going and 
service under more favorable conditions should be 
the chief features." 

HENRY C. SYMMES, M. D., Cranbury, New 
Jersey. 

"History has added no change to my occupa- 
tion. I am still a medical practitioner in my first 
field. I can testify to the satisfaction that belongs 
to the physician in following a profession that, al- 
though one of many unpleasant vicissitudes, 
still gives in return many pleasant experiences. 
My health was much impaired for about five years, 
but it is good at this writing and I hope I may be 
able to enjoy the meeting of the dear old class in 
June. 

3. "Same good wife; none of you have a better. 

4. "No children. 

5. "Hence no suggestions. 

6. "Let the University continue to use the same 
formula as at present. 

7. "Life seems to me more and more a prepara- 
tory struggle, and he who wins is the one who 
sticks closer to the guidance of Holy Writ." 



JOHN MADISON TAYLOR, M. D., 1504 Pine 
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

"Professor of Diseases of Children in the Phila- 
delphia Polyclinic College for Graduates ; Fellow of 
the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Fellow of 
the American Academy of Medicine, member of the 
American Neurological Association, American Cli- 
matological Association, and many local medical 
societies, county, pediatric, etc.. Neurologist to 
Howard Hospital, Pediatrist to Philadelphia Hos- 
pital, Assistant to Orthopedic Hospital and Infirm- 
ary for Nervous Diseases, Chief of Clinic for S. 
Weir Mitchell, M. D., Assistant Physician to Chil- 
dren's Hospital, etc. 

2. "Personal history brief and uneventful. Plenty 
of hard work, and only moderate financial success. 

"Joint author of Taylor and Wells's 'Text Book 
on Diseases of Children,' a work of 850 pages. 

"Constant contributor to medical journals, about 
seventy papers on various scientific subjects; oc- 
casional contributions to lay journals on allied sub- 
jects. 

"Member of severial clubs: University, Country, 
etc. 

4. "Son, Mechanical Engineering course. Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, 1901-1905. 

" 'Secondary education' might be interpreted 
to signify the things one has learned or ought to 
learn by the process of disillusionment, as time 
clarifies the vision of the optimistic product of col- 

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lege commencements. Of this I have learned 
much. My song may not be 'sweeter/ to quote 
the opening quotation from Dr. Holmes, but it will 
be phrased more soberly, and mayhap more accu- 
rately than the song I sang about the cannon in 
1876. It would run into the answer to No. 7, 
which would require a large amount of paper to do 
it justice, and more time than I have at my dis- 
posal, unless it had some good end to serve. I 
am by no means sure it would amuse or instruct the 
secretary, or possible readers of the Record, hence 
it would serve no good end. 

"I have put much of my beliefs in such shape as 
addresses to graduates, etc., which appear here and 
there in various periodicals. 

"Life for me has been very pleasant, chiefly be- 
cause I have a buoyant disposition and retain an 
almost boyish nature, despite much harrowing and 
many disappointments. The worst of this is the 
conviction, slowly forced upon me, that my abili- 
ties are of a distinctly respectable, useful, but not 
lofty order, capable of serving many wholesome 
ends, but of no epoch-making powers. It is im- 
possible for me to realize that I am so advanced 
in years as to be middle-aged. Life still looks 
bright to me and full of promises. I feel myself 
ready to undertake almost any quest in my chosen 
lines, with the full expectation of obtaining suc- 
cesses, and then I am forced to observe that my 
days are too full of petty responsibilities which 
brook no neglect from the standpoint of duty." 

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PROF. HENRY A. TODD, Ph. D., 824 West End 
Avenue, New York City, and "Woodlsuids," 
Baltimore, Maryland. 

"I am just returned, with wife and children, from 
an eight months' stay in Europe, where I have been 
enjoying my first 'sabbatical year' of absence from 
Columbia University. Our time was spent wholly 
in England and France — in the former country for 
pleasure and recreation, in the latter for the re- 
newal of old-time studies and associations. One 
of my experiences in England was a visit to the 
register of the old parish church at Bradford, where 
is recorded the baptism, early in the seventeenth 
century, of my first American ancestor. 

"Under query No. 4, I am happy to be able to 
report, in addition to two daughters already ac- 
counted for, the birth of two sons: Henry Wal- 
lingford Todd, born at 'Woodlands,' Baltimore, 
August 2, 1897, and Paul Wallingford Todd, born at 
824 West End Avenue, New York, November 15, 
1899. 

"The professional assurance of this happy con- 
summation to my former reports was given me 
some years since in a casual meeting, by Dr. 'Bob' 
Johnson, who declared authoritatively, and much 
to my satisfaction, that 'boys would follow.' In 
view of my recent genealogical success 'at both 
ends of the line,' I am interested in the organization 
of an 'American Family Record Society,' with 
strictly democratic family-emblem attachment, in 

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regard to which I should be happy to correspond 
with classmates and others. 

"As to query No. 5, 1 find, like every one else who 
gives the subject attention, that the secret of suc- 
cess in the rearing of children lies in the judicious 
combination of — no weak indulgence, a little 
firmness, and no end of devotion. If you wish 
your children to be able to speak a foreign 
language when they are grown, do not rely 
upon school or college training, but give them a 
foreign nurse from the outset. The only difficulty 
lies in finding a good one." 

"H"' neglects to add that he is, or was. Associate 
Editor of Modern Language Notes, member of the 
Modern Language Association, life member of the 
Early French Text Society, member of the Ameri- 
can Philological Association, American Oriental 
Society, Dante Society, American Dialect Society, 
New York Academy of Science and Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. He is also a member of the Prince- 
ton and Century Clubs. 

ROBERT NAIRNE TODD, Salisbury, Maryland. 

"Since my last report I have sold m,y farm 
in Worcester County, Md., and have moved to 
Salisbury, Md., where I am in the machine and im- 
plement business. 

"We have had four children, viz : Robert 
Nairne, Jr., born October 10, 1893; Agnes May, 
October 8, 1896, and on October 29, 1899, we had 
twins, Tryphena E. and Francis S., the latter of 
whom died September 11, 1900. 

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"I think Princeton has made some wonderful 
advances, and had it not been for a few old land- 
marks, such as Nassau Hall and West College, I 
should never have known my Alma Mater, a 
period of twenty-two years having elapsed since I 
was there. 

"I have never regretted my choice of colleges, and 
the fact of being a Princeton man has been a great 
benefit to me in every way." 

ARTHUR TURNURE, 3 West Twenty-ninth 
Street, New York City. 
"Publisher. With Harper Brothers, in charge 
of their art department, 1891 and 1892 ; since then 
publisher of Vogue. 

4. "David, born November 20, 1899. 

5. "As you may note, my experience with chil- 
dren being limited to a period of eighteen months, 
I am somewhat diffident in face of this question. 
Upon the training of young children Dr. George 
E. Dawson, in his lecture 'The Child that Resists,' 
seems to have more common sense than one finds in 
any recent writer. 

6. "Princeton University should be expanded 
only as a means to an end, the end being the mak- 
ing of great men whose salutary influence shall be 
felt to the uttermost parts of the earth. The chief 
defect in its present graduates is physical, not men- 
tal, a fact mainly attributable to the undergraduate 
not learning how to exercise regularly as a habit. 
Daily exercise should be part of the instruction — 

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just as much part oi the opportunity given for the 
acquisition of knowledge as that supplied by any of 
the curriculum. I do not mean gymnastic tricks 
and field games, but such exercises as one can con- 
tinue as a daily habit after graduation; either such 
exercises as the Keating method gives or some 
similar method. The alumnus can carry away 
from Princeton this knowledge and habit, but he 
can not continue baseball, football, track athletics 
and gymnastic practice. Princeton alumni would 
have far more influence if there were not among 
them so many dyspeptic lean and plethoric fat. Fa- 
cilities for exercise at Princeton are now designed 
for the strong, who need it as gladiators, but 
inducements to exercise are not brought to bear 
upon the great majority. This great majority will 
lead sedentary lives. They will work with their 
brains mainly. Their occupations are within doors 
and regular exercise that is possible every day of 
the year indoors is what they should learn. 

"The habit of sensible, feasible, daily exercise 
once acquired will never die. Field work and ap- 
paratus exercises are always abandoned or fall into 
disuse because they must of necessity. What 
profiteth it a Princeton undergraduate if for four 
years he have muscles of steel and a straight front, 
but a few years later become rotund as the full 
moon or a coddler of chronic indigestion, with ap- 
pendicitis, gastritis, neuritis, cystitis or any other 
*itis* as his constant companions? 

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7- " 'Observations on Life' — a most enticing trap 
for the unwary ! 

"I observe that the twenty-five years have passed 
as a 'watch in the night' ; that the future still has 
the allurements of hope; that one's judgment on 
others grows gentler as years mellow; that old 
friends are dearer and the simple virtues are still 
the most enduring, the most potent; that kindness, 
courage and truth yearly rise higher in our esteem, 
and that the rarest of all virtues, loyalty, grows 
still rarer; that he has the most capacity for en- 
joyment whose appreciations include most, and that 
no man need live in a fog of commonplace if he 
but practice rising above his own petty horizon; 
which is but saying that one's ability to rise above 
one's natural horizon is the greatest blessing de- 
rived from a university education." 

REV. ALBERT VAN DEUSEN. Died January 
10, 1886. [See Record No. IV.. page no.] 

JOHN SKILLMAN VAN DIKE, 28 Model Ave- 
nue, Trenton, New Jersey. 

"As you will observe, I cut most of your queries. 
Nothing of unusual moment has occurred in my 
life during the last five years." 

According to his letter-head "Van" is a member of 
the firm of Holt and Van Dike, Counselors-at-Law, 
with offices in the Baker Building, 40 East State 
Street, Trenton. 

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WILLIAM BIRD VAN LENNEP, A. M., M. D., 
1 42 1 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

"Personal : Have been in the best of health 
since last report. Business: Have been pros- 
pered beyond my expectations. Professional : Have 
held the Professorship in complete charge of the 
surgery at the Hahnemann Medical College and 
Hospital for the past five years ; other professional 
appointments pretty much as stated in last re- 
port. 

"Literary and publications: Journal articles, 
medical addresses, etc. 

"Political : The honor of voting the Republican 
ticket. 

"Honors received : Chairmanships, presidencies, 
etc., that fall to the lot of active medical men and 
teachers. 

"Club memberships: Princeton Club (Vice-Pres- 
ident), Princeton Alumni Association (Executive 
Committee), Union League (Director), Ritten- 
house Club, Bachelors' Barge Club, Orpheus Club, 
etc." 

Last February "Van" was elected a member of 
the Graduate Advisory Committee on Athletics, so 
that this next remark comes with the authority of 
personal observation. 

6. "Princeton appears all right. 

7. "The secret of success in my profession, from 
my point of view, is unremitting, everlasting dili- 
gence. The rule of my life has been in anything 



undertaken, no matter how trivial, to give it my. 
best thought and endeavor." 

LAPSLEY G. WALKER, Chattanooga, Ten- 
nessee. 

"I have little to report since the last Record. 
I am now, as I was then, the managing editor of 
the Chattanooga Times. I have since served as 
Chairman of the Election Commission for this 
(Hamilton) County, and as such earned the undying 
disfavor of the politicians, office-holders and office- 
seekers of my own party, because I insisted on fair 
and honest elections and demanded fair play for the 
people of the opposite party. The appointment 
came to me without solicitation, but the reappoint- 
ment will not come because the Governor is not 
built after my order of architecture. My exper- 
ience in politics, which has been largely, in fact 
I might say altogether, as an amateur, is that virtue 
in that particular field of endeavor must bear its 
own reward — it rarely gets any other. But on that 
account I think it is all the more the duty of the 
honest and high-minded citizen to give of his time 
and thought to partisan politics, to the end that 
the trickster, the time-servers and trimmers may 
not always control." 

For "Yap's" views in regard to Princeton, we 
quote some editorial remarks from the Chattan- 
ooga Times of June 17, 1897, anent the recent 
change from college to university : 

"The old graduate will cherish the name of 'Col- 



lege of New Jersey' as his Alma Mater with love 
and reverence, but he will none the less rejoice 
that the beloved institution has taken its rightful 
place in the highest rank of modern universities ; 
his only fear will be that the new regime may in a 
measure destroy that generous fraternity and 
warm-hearted affection for each other that charac- 
terized the students of former days and made 
Princeton College the most delightful and desirable 
institution of learning on the continent. The heart 
was then educated as well as the head, and the 
soul of the student was broadened and elevated by 
contact with such noble spirits as McLean, At- 
water, Alexander, and last, and above all, the la- 
mented McCosh, all of whom taught first the broth- 
erhood of man and afterwards added all other learn- 
ing thereto." 

"Yap" continues, under question No. 7 : 
"I have not much to boast of as a result of my 
twenty-five years in the 'wide, wide world.' I have 
tried to do my duty as it came to my hand, and to 
do it with all my might. I have used whatever 
ability I have had to the advancement of the inter- 
ests of those who trusted me, and I have measur- 
ably succeeded in securing and holding their con- 
fidence. I have not succeeded in accumulating 
much of this world's goods, but I have enjoyed and 
do now enjoy a happy and contented mind. I have 
been deprived of most of the luxuries, pleasures 
and opportunities for higher attainments, enjoyed 
by more highly favored classmates, but I have 

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found that these, things are not essential to genuine 
happiness. My lines have been cast in pleasant 
and congenial places, and after all there is little 
else to be found in the battle of existence. My 
conclusion, after these twenty-five years, is that 
the man whose tastes and duties conform, and who 
has attained to the things of which his ability is 
capable, has succeeded and may be accounted to 
have reached the highest degree of happiness pos- 
sible to him. There are successes in life all around 
us just as worthy of note and just as important to 
the world as Carnegie, Rockefeller or Schwab ; and 
in my judgment the man who wins in the lesser and 
more arduous walks of life will have just as much 
coming to him in the final round-up of credits as 
any of the more distinguished figures in the world's 
history." 

LEWIS MALFORD WALKER. Died May lo, 
1878. [See Record No. IV., page 119.] 

REV. DE LACEY WARDLAW, Lexington, Vir- 
ginia. 

"I have continued missionary work in North 
Brazil. I established the Presbyterian Church in 
the former Province, now State, of Ceara, in 1882. 
In 1883 I first preached the Gospel according to 
Protestant ideas in the Province, now State, of Rio 
Grande de Norte, and organized later the first Pres- 
byterian Church in that State. 

"In the same year I also spent four weeks preach- 

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ing in the Province of Maranhao, and six weeks 
in 1884. My work has been in opening up new 
ground, bearing the hard knocks, and, after all dan- 
ger was over, to be succeeded by other missionar- 
ies. My literary work has consisted in weekly 
contributions for many years to the Saturday edi- 
tion of a daily paper and to preparation of two 
pamphlets. 

3. "Married July 29, 1880, to Mary Hoge, of Vir- 
ginia. 

4. "Children — Four girls: Virginia Randolph, 
born August i, 1881 ; Blanche Lewis, August 6, 
1883 ; Eloise Mary, June 4, 1886, and Carolina Cun- 
ningham, July 19, 1891. The children have been 
educated at home by the aid of private masters. 

5. "Would teach Latin or Greek, or one modern 
Latin and one Germanic language; for training, 
prefer the ancient languages. 

7. "There is a lot of happiness to be had every- 
where, and kind-hearted people are in a large ma- 
jority, even among the least cultured." 

Wardlaw came to this country in April from Bra- 
zil, where for the past twelve years he has been a 
missionary of the Presbyterian Church (Southern). 

SPENCER WEART, 29 Exchange Place, Jersey 
City, New Jersey. 

"What I answered for the Twefttieth Year Book 
will have to do for the present, as there has been 
no change in my domestic or professional life." 

The "Little One's" letterhead reads: North Jer- 

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sey Street Railway Company, Legal Department, 
Spencer Weart, General Counsel. 

Under question 6 he says : 

"While owing a great deal to the contact with the 
Class of '76, and being under obligations to Prince- 
ton College for such an education as there received, 
I would like to say something agreeable about 
Princeton University, but my feelings must give 
way to my judgment." 

HENRY HORACE WEBSTER. Died January^ 

17, 1891. [See Record ^o. V., page 85.] 

REV. IRVING ELISHA WHITE, 172 Highland 
Avenue, Port Chester, New York. 

"From 1886 to 1896 I was pastor of the Second 
Presbyterian Church at Peekskill, New York. I 
resigned in April, 1896, and spent a year resting. 
In May, 1897, I came here as pastor of the Pres- 
byterian Church, and have been hard at work 
since." 

WILLIAM H. WHITTLESEY, Seattie, Wash- 
ington, care of Charles F. Whittlesey, Esq. 

A letter from W. A. Cleland, bearing date of June 
6, says: "I have just returned from a flying trip 
through Seattle, and endeavored to find Whittlesey. 
I learned that he had given up his office and was 
actively engaged in preparing to start for Nome, 
Alaska. I heard, incidentally, that he was in Nome 
last season, looking the situation over, and pre- 

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sume that he now goes prepared to capture the 
country. I shall confidently expect to see his 
name in the list of those returning from that far 
off port laden with nuggets and prepared to do 
the grand tour of the country." 

"Billy" has this year sent no report, though 
strongly urged by letters and telegram. 

Mail sent to "Billy" at the above address, in care 
of his brother, will doubtless reach him. 

REV. PROF. R. D. WILSON, D. D., Princeton, 
New Jersey. 

In May, 1900, "Bob," who had for twenty years 
been Instructor and Professor in the Western Theo- 
logical Seminary at Allegheny, Pa., was elected 
Professor of Semitic Philology and Old Testament 
Criticism in Princeton Theological Seminary. His 
inauguration came September 21, 1900, the subject 
of his address being "The Lower Criticism as a 
Preparation for the Higher." According to the 
New York Observer of August 23, 1900, "he will 
instruct the Junior Class in the canon and text of 
the Old Testament. Years of enthusiastic study 
devoted to textual criticism have rendered Dr. 
Wilson peculiarly acquainted with the Old Testa- 
ment, its history, its present condition, its repre- 
sentatives in ancient versions, and the methods of 
determining its genuine form." 

"Bob" writes "My principal literary labor has 
been in the line of book reviews for a couple of the 
University of Chicago Reviews and for the Presby- 

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terian and Reformed Review. One of the pleasures 
of my life in Princeton has been that some of the 
boys of '76 have dropped in to see me. I hope 
there may be many returns of the same, and that 
their example may be followed by others." 

REV. SAMUEL GRAHAM WILSON, Tabriz, 
Persia, via Berlin. 

"I have continued the same work as reported 
in the last Record, with no changes worthy of 
special notice. 

"Rob visited us in the summer of 1898 and 
roughed it with me around Lake Urumia. We 
expect to be in railroad connection with the rest of 
the world in a year or two, so I cordially invite 
the members of '76 to put Tabriz on their list when 
inclined to globe-trotting. 

"My work is for the Armenians and Mohamme- 
dans. I continue to superintend and teach in the 
Memorial Training and Theological School; am 
Mission Treasurer and engage in evangelization 
and itif superintendence. My 'Persia — Western 
Missions' was issued shortly after the last Record. 
My 'Persian Life and Customs' has reached its 
fifth thousand. I have been special correspondent 
for the Missionary Review. 

"As to my surroundings, I live in one of the 
fanatical lands of the East and in a bigoted pro- 
vince. And since Chambers has succeeded in stir- 
ring up Armenian massacres and Lowrie and Ful- 
ton have caused the Chinese atrocities, naturally 'y^ 

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will expect me, as its representative in Asia, to 
bring on a Persian reign of terror. What pestifer- 
ous nuisances missionaries are anyhow! if we can 
believe the newspapers. Better shoot us at once 
or we will turn the rest of the world upside down. 
A month or so ago I was wicked enough to plan 
a temperance lecture with stereopticon views of 
Europe and America to be exhibited in our school 
room to the Mohammedans! What a dangerous 
innovation ! The Crown Prince sent us word that 
the Mollahs objected to such an affair. What shall 
we plan next to disturb the peace of the world ! 

"My home-coming will probably be in 1904-5, so 
that I will not be able to join in the class dinners. 

" 'Salams' to all the boys." 

"Sam" reports two accessions to his family since 
the last Record: Esther Foster, born September 
21, 1897, and Andrew Wilkins, Jr., August 13, 1899. 

J. M. WOODS, Lewistown, Mifflin County, Penn- 
sylvania. 

"Some people put Hon. before my name because 
I was in the Senate of Pennsylvania from '89 to '96. 

2. "I have been practicing law at the same place 
I began ; I have not followed a literary line, was 
in the State Senate as above, am a member of 
Princeton Club of Philadelphia, the Scotch-Irish 
Society of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Bar As- 
sociation. 

4. "My oldest daughter is now at Mt. Holyoke 
College, and my oldest son, James, entered the 

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freshman class at Princeton in the fall of 1900, but 
in February, 1 90 1, having received an appointment 
to the United States Naval Academy, he went to 
Annapolis and passed the necessary examination 
successfully in May. He is cruising on the In- 
diana this summer. 

5. "I should like to see our public school system 
brought up to where pupils could be prepared to 
enter college directly from the public schools. 

6. "I am not in full accord with the present ex- 
pansion policy of Princeton. The tendency now- 
adays seems to be to let the young men do as they 
please. The 'University' is too great, too exalted 
and too big for those at the head of the institution 
to take any interest in the personal welfare of the 
young men fresh from the restraining influence of 
home. The philosopher and teacher should not 
say to the pupil 'come up to my level' ; they should 
be willing to make the interest of the student their 
interest by coming into personal contact with each 
student. The President's and instructors' responsi- 
bility cannot be shifted over to the College Y. M. 
C. A. I love the Princeton of '76, but I do not 
know the Princeton of the Twentieth Century. 

7. "Life is worth living in just so far as we, each 
one, make it worth living for others to live 
with us." 



WARREN WOODWARD. Died December 3, 
1881. [See Record No. IV., page 131.] 

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REV. WILLIAM H. WOOLVERTON, Stockton, 
New Jersey. 

"Upon the advice of my physician I resigned my 
Boonton pastorate in February of this year to enter 
the Department of Agriculture upon my father's 
farms near Stockton, N. J. 

7. "I have learned many things since graduation ; 
I am continually adding increments and particles 
to the ones so diligently laid on and assiduously 
rubbed in by our dear devoted 'Johnnie' Laird ; at 
the same time I have nothing wherewith to supple- 
ment the wisdom of Solomon. I am a growing 
optimist, believing more and more in Him whose 
evangel is one of hope and faith and love ; whose 
life is of the Spirit. A working formula of my 
everyday philosophy is, that the way to augment 
the fraction of well-being and happiness is not so 
much by multiplying one's numerator as by divid- 
ing one's denominator." 

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

HOWARD RUSSELL BUTLER, Carnegie Hall, 
New York City. 

"Degrees : B. S., LL. B. 

"I still consider myself an artist and wish others 
would back me up in that view, but they are ex- 
cusable as my list of works is small and I get very 
little time to paint. The fact is I am leading a 
double life — artist one-half the time and business 
man the other. 

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"I am President of the American Fine Arts So- 
ciety, President of Carnegie Music Hall Company 
of New York and attorney for Andrew Carnegie. 
This is the business side. On the other I am still 
devoted to painting the sea. 

"I am a member of the Century, University, Lo- 
sign, Society of American Artists, New York 
tos and Princeton Clubs, National Academy of De- 
Water Color Club and Fine Arts Federation. 

"I have one child, Howard Russell Butler, Jr., 
born November 5, 1896, hale and hearty, and one 
of the best fellows I ever met. 

"In politics I am more than ever an independent, 
especially on questions of municipal government. 

"I think the greatest advantage derived from 
my college course was the early acquaintance it 
gave me with the theory of evolution." 

JOHN G. CECIL, B. S., M. D., 1537 Fourth Ave- 
nue, Louisville, Kentucky. 

"History since last report uneventful. My life 
is spent in practicing and teaching medicine. I now 
occupy the Professorship of Materia Medica, Ther- 
apeutics and Public Hygiene in the University of 
Louisville. Have no literary aspirations, but am 
called upon frequently to give aid and advice to my 
son in writing his speeches for the High School. 
Have no political ambition; found it necessary to 
change my politics when the Democratic party put 
Mr. Bryan and his platform to the fore. I could 
not swallow 'Billy' and his free silver, so naturally 

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I am now over on the other side. No honor, save 
that above mentioned, has been conferred on me, 
and I have published nothing except professional 
papers in medical journals. I belong to a number 
of medical societies, no others. 

3 and 4. "My domestic and family relations are 
unchanged since last report — wife and four living 
children. Hope my oldest son will be able to enter 
Princeton in two years. 

6. "Princeton must continue to grow and expand 
until it is the University of this country in the full- 
est sense of the word. It should be a place where a 
student can get any kind of knowledge he seeks. 

7. "Life gives us the opportunity to do all the 
good we can, to the greatest number, and as often 
as we can. There is more real satisfaction in this 
than in any other phase of human existence. My 
profession gives abundant opportunities in this line, 
but I must acknowledge that I feel awfully sorry 
for myself in the 'wee small hours of the night' 
when duty calls me to the bedside of the sick and 
sufifering." 

FRANK DAVENPORT COOK. Died Decem- 
ber — , 1887. [See Record No. V., page 102.] 

JOHN AYCRIGG HEGEMAN, M. D., 200 Pen- 
nington Avenue, Passaic, New Jersey. 

"I have nothing in the way of history to report 
of special interest. I have been pursuing the even 
tenor of a business life, endeavoring to be honest 

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in my dealings with my fellow men, and keeping 
an eye on them, that they may be the same to- 
ward me. 

4. "Of our two girls the eldest, Lucy M., is a 
sophomore at Wellesley College, pursuing the reg- 
ular course. 

6. "I am inclined to think the plan for Alumni 
representation will have a marked influence on the 
future growth and expansion. I should rather have 
seen more time given to the consideration of the 
question from the Alumni side, and would submit, 
as a personal opinion only, that, perhaps, if the 
present year had been given to the preliminary 
steps, such as legislation and formation of plans, 
so that the body of the Alumni might have an op- 
portunity to carefully consider nominees, the re- 
sult might have had a stronger promise of accom- 
plishing the object sought than at present may be 
the case. However, I am ready to accept the con- 
ditions and do what I can to further the cause by 
exercising the franchise. 

7. "This is such a general question, and covers 
so much ground, that I feel like answering no> pre- 
pared. Had you selected some special topic I 
should have found it easier to handle. In a gen- 
eral way I have come to the conclusion that in a 
large majority of cases life is much what we each 
make it. We are not all called to high positions, nor 
is the bubble fame something that can be surely ac- 
quired by dint of hard work. He serves his day and 
generation best who does the work apparently cut 

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out for him, as he sees his duty, with an honesty of 
purpose and his best efforts." 

ROBERT HASELL McKOY, Wamington, North 
Carolina. 

He writes that he has been suffering from ill 
health for some months and has not had energy to 
write for the Record. He is still an attorney-at-law, 
in Wilmington, N. C, and there has been no 
change in his family since the last report. 

W. B. McKOY, Wilmington, North Carolina. 

No report. 

CHARLES R. SMITH, Menasha, Wisconsin; res- 
idence, Neenah, Wisconsin. 

"Business: Manufacturer of wooden ware; 
dealer in timber lands and lumber ; President First 
National Bank of Menasha, Wis., etc. 

"Have been offered the trusteeship of two or 
three prominent western colleges, but declined. 
Nothing short of being trustee of Princeton would 
be any temptation." 

Charley was married to Isabel Bacon Rogers, 
June 6, 1900, at Neenah, Wisconsin. 

W. P. STEVENSON, 30 Broad Street, New York; 
residence, Roselle, Union County, New 
Jersey. 

"History uneventful. 

"Member of the Society of Sons of the Revolu- 
tion, Society of Colonial Wars and Down Town 
Association. 

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4- "My son is at Lawrenceville, and hopes to en- 
ter Princeton in September, 1901. My daughter 
is at Vassar, in the class of 1904. 

6. "I hope to see Princeton maintain its position 
beside Harvard and Yale at the head of the educa- 
tional institutions of the country." 

NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS, 

REV. T. C. BEATTIE, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
He is still pastor of the Albuquerque Presbyter- 
ian Church, where he has been since October, 1890. 
He is married, but has no children. 

CHARLES FROOME BRAGG. Died February 
22, 1893. [See Record VI., page ill.] 

JOHN KERFOOT BRYDEN, Times Building, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

"I have confined myself to the bond business 
for the past ten years, and am a member of the firm 
of Darr, Moore and Bryden, dealers in municipal 
and high grade corporation bonds. I have never 
fooled with politics. I am a member of most every 
club in Pittsburgh. 

3. "I have not been married since last report, and 
chances good for my being single fifty years hence. 

5. "Pass up. 

6. "1 will be able to express myself on this sub- 
ject after I have seen the changes which have taken 
place since I was in Princeton about fifteen years 
ago. 

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7- "The quarter century just ended has been a 
busy one for me. I have had a great experience, 
and I think I have made a success of every under- 
taking entered into. I have worked very hard and 
have helped many good friends on the road. I 
look back to the time I was in college and it appears 
but a very short time since I was a student at 
Princeton. I feel just as young as I did twenty- 
five years ago, and my friends say I do not look 
much older. I am fairly happy. Get the blues 
once in a while, but that is all." 

JOHN CONGER, 39 Wall Street, New York City, 
care of John C. Ten Eyck, Esq. 

No report. 

He is still in the insurance business. Is not 
married. 

\ B. C. CUVELLIER, 1223 Union Street, Oakland, 
^j"" |„*^ California. 

,<$/' "There has been no change worthy of note in my 

^ y business career since my last report. I have been 

y with the same firm in San Francisco since 1882, and 

occupy what is generally considered a good posi- 
tion. I am free to say that it does not satisfy my 
ambition. However, I suppose I should not com- 
plain, and that a man with a thirteen-room house 
clear of incumbrance, on a fifty-foot front lot lo- 
cated in a good neighborhood, in the second largest 
city on the Pacific Coast, having no debts, with 
some money laid by, and with wife and children all 

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in good health and happy, is really better off than 
a good many. If in addition to all these good 
things this same man occupies a prominent political 
position in a city of sixty thousand inhabitants, if 
three times in succession he has been elected by 
ever increasing majorities, if he has the conscious- 
ness that he is trusted and honored by his friends 
and the public, and that he is respected, although 
hated, by his enemies, surely that man has no great 
cause for complaint. Well, to use a homely and un- 
grammatical expression : 'That man, that's me.' 
Such has been my experience during the past few- 
years, and I have just been re-elected by the largest 
vote received by any one of the many candidates 
running for that office to serve the city of Oakland 
for a term of two years more as Councilman at 
large, that is, representing the entire city, and not 
any single ward. 

"How did I get the office-holding bee in my bon- 
net ? Simply by having the riot act read to me by 
one of my young children at the beginning of a 
political campaign just before the holding of the 
conventions for making nominations. It was at the 
dinner table, and I was explaining to the family 
why it was that for the sixth consecutive evening 
I would have to be absent from home until quite 
late, as it was necessary that I should attend a 
political caucus having in view the promotion of 
the aspirations of one of my friends for Mayor. 
Up spoke one of my small boys: 'See here, papa, 
the whole family is getting tired of having you 

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work yourself to death helping other people get 
nominated and elected. Now, if you must be in 
politics, why don't you get in and get elected to 
some position yourself?' Verily this was 'wisdom 
from the mouths of babes.' I lingered over my 
black coffee and discussed the matter fully with 
the wife and children. The wife did not enthuse 
much over the project, but the youngsters were 
all emphatic and boisterous in their approval of the 
idea. ''Anything to make you happy,' I said, and I 
walked out of the house that evening with the firm 
determination to get a nomination as Councilman- 
at-large and to be elected. I did both, although 
not in one evening, of course. I got the nomination 
and was elected by a very flattering vote. That 
was in 1897. Then in 1899 I was renominated and 
re-elected by a still larger vote. And now in 1901 
for the third time I have again been nominated and 
elected by the largest vote of any. 

"What have been the secrets of my success? I 
will tell you, I did not go into politics to make 
money. I waited until I felt that I could afford 
to be honest an3 that I was in a position where no 
amount of money could be an inducement to me to 
do wrong. I took up politics as a pastime and it be- 
came a passion. 

"I made municipal government a study. I treated 
all classes and conditions of men alike, without 
prejudice and without partiality. Rich and poor 
in politics are all the same to me. I have tried to 
be fair and just to all, and have ever striven to pro- 

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mote the welfare of the community which had hon- 
ored me with its trust and confidence. 

"I have been sincere in my convictions and have 
fought for the principles I believe in. 

"I have never allowed myself to get carried away 
with an over-estimate of my own abilities nor of 
my importance, I have made it a point to remem- 
ber and know people after election just as well 
as I did before election. Whenever it has been 
in my power to do some poor fellow a good turn 
I have done it gladly, and have put myself out to 
oblige him when necessary. 

"When I tell one of my constituents that I will 
do a thing, I do it. It is political suicide to give 
what is known as 'the double cross.' In politics be 
careful how you give your word, but having given 
it, stand by it. Municipal ownership of water sup- 
ply is what I have been fighting for during the past 
four years, and will continue to advocate. 

"If you ask me what has been to me the greatest 
source of gratification in my political career, I will 
answer that it is the good which I have been able to 
do, the helping hand which by reason of my political 
position and influence I have been able to extend 
to many who were in need of it. 

''You want a few observations on life as viewed 
after twenty-five years of graduation. 

"(i) Honesty is not policy, it is principle. 

"(2) The world can be divided into two great 
classes, the exploiters and the exploited, but most 

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of the world's happiness is not among the ex- 
ploiters. 

"(3) There is no sentiment in business. If you 
expect to get any of the world's money, you must 
have something of your own to offer in exchange 
therefor, whether it be ability, intelligence, knowl- 
edge, or goods, wares and merchandise. 

"(4) If you want anything in this world you 
must go after it. You are likely to be disappointed 
if you wait for things to come your way. 

"(5) The man who is perfectly contented with 
his lot in life is supremely happy ; but so also is a 
cow in a hay field. Don't be a cow. 

"(6) A clear conscience, good health and the 
respect of your fellow men are worth more than all 
the gold on earth. 

"In closing let me say that there has been no 
increase nor decrease in my family since my last 
report. God in His mercy has been kind to us and 
the scythe of the great Reaper has not mowed our 
way." 

AUGUSTUS H. DELLICKER, Hackettstown, 
New Jersey. 

No report. 

JAMES SEARS DICKERSON. Died February 
26, 1876. [See Record No. IV., page 141.] 

E. S. ELY. 

No report. 

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REV. CHARLES PAGE EMERSON. Died Jan- 
uary 19, 1887. [See Record No. V., page iii.] 

CECIL C. FULTON, Dover, Delaware. 

"I really have nothing to report since the last 
Record. I am still in the same business, Assistant 
Secretary of the Kings County Mutual Insurance 
Company, of Dover, Del. My daughter Edith is at- 
tending the Friends' Central High School, in Phil- 
adelphia, and my son Cecil, Jr., is in the Senior 
Class of the Dover High School." 

WILLIAM W. GREEN, Englewood, New Jersey, 
and 120 Broadway, New York City. 

No report. 

EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Madison, New Jersey, 
and Mutual Life Insurance Company, New 
York. 

"History since last report has been simply an- 
other volume of the same story. I have been able 
to hold on to all public and private positions re- 
ported at that time." "Ed" is Assistant Cashier of 
the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York 
and President of the Board of Education of Madi- 
son, N. J. 

"1 am thankful to say that there has been no 
break in my family circle. 

"Children: Margaretta W., born July 12, 1880; 
Eleanor S., March 12, 1882 ; Edward P., Jr., January 
9, 1884; Elizabeth C, December 3, 1885. 

"My oldest daughter is in the Class of 1903, Vas- 
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sar College, taking the full course. My only son 
expects to enter the Class of 1906, Princeton, and 
has taken his preliminary examination. 

"My observation and experience lead me to be- 
lieve that every girl and boy of honest purpose 
and studious mind should have the highest educa- 
tion possible. 

"I rejoice in the prosperity and growth of Prince- 
ton. Few spots on earth are so dear to me. As 
the years advance I appreciate more and more the 
expressions of kindly feeling of the members of ^y^y 
with whom it was my misfortune to have so brief 
a college association.*' 

HARRY BACKUS KAUFMAN. Died December 
27, 1882. [See Record No. IV., page 147.] 

ALLEN TAYLOR KYLE. Died April 5, 1889. 
[See Record No. V., page 113.] 

REV. W. R. LAIRD, West Chester, Pennsylvania. 

"There is not much to state. The Lord has 
greatly blessed my efforts and the work has grown 
year by year, with many tokens of His favor. 

"I have a daughter in our State Normal School 
here at West Chester. After graduation she will 
take a special course in college. My oldest boy is 
looking forward to a college course, but his plans 
are not fully laid out as yet. 

'T would enjoy more than I can express being 
at the reunion, but fear I cannot arrange it." 

Laird is the successful pastor of the First Pres- 
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byterian Church- of West Chester and President of 
the Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Associa- 
tion. He is doing an excellent work. 

M. F. LEASON, Kittanning, Pennsylvania. 

"My history is a very brief one since the last re- 
port. I have devoted myself assiduously to the 
practice of law; have had that success which as- 
siduity entitles one to, to-wit, a reasonable amount. 
I have met with one serious loss, the death of my 
wife, who passed away Thursday, May 2, 1901." 

JOHN G. LYON, 522 West Burke Street, Martins- 
burgh, West Virginia. 

"Jai" seems to be with the Brooklyn Brass and 
Manufacturing Company, or he may be "it." He 
writes: "There has been no change in my afifairs 
or family since last report, except we are all grow- 
ing older." 

JOHN G. MACKY, Media, Delaware County, 
Pennsylvania, and 434 Bourse Building, Phil- 
adelphia, Pennsylvania. 

2. "I am still engaged in the wholesale grain 
business. I began operating on my own account 
January i, 1900. 

"I am a member of the International Sabbath 
School Field- Workers' Conference, Secretary of the 
Delaware County Sabbath School Association and 
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Phil- 
adelphia Presbyterian Sabbath School Superintend- 
ents' Association. 

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7- "No. 2 answers pretty much to what my idea 
of life is: drawing from above and giving out to 
other lives." 

HAROLD MANN. Died July 31, 1889. [See 
Record No. V., page 117.] 

HAMILTON MARKLEY. 

Hamilton Markley died at his home in Camden, 
New Jersey, April 4, 1900. He was born in Cam- 
den, N. J., on the 6th of May, 1854. His father, Al- 
bert W. Markley, was an active and influential di- 
rector of the Camden and Amboy Railroad from 
1859 to the close of 1871, and in a portion of 1868 
and 1869 was acting President. 

Hamilton was educated in private schools in Phil- 
adelphia until admitted to Princeton College in Sep- 
tember, 1872. Upon leaving Princeton he pursued 
professional studies for several months, and in Jan- 
uary, 1874, entered the service of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Company as weighmaster at Walnut 
Street Wharf. He was promoted to be Cash Clerk 
in 1875, Cashier in 1876, Chief Clerk of the consoli- 
dated stations, under L. N. Walton, January i, 1881, 
Chief Clerk of the West Philadelphia Freight 
Station, August i, 1886, and in addition to 
the latter, he served as Superintendent of the 
Grain Depot from November 7, 1889, to No- 
vember, 1891, and as Assistant Superintendent of 
the Merchants' Warehouse Company from Feb- 
ruary, 1888, to July 6, 1892. He was promoted to 
be freight agent of the Kensington District July 6, 

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1892. This district is the great manufacturing ter- 
ritory of Philadelphia, producing a million tons of 
freight annually to the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. 
Markley administered the affairs of the agency with 
fidelity and skill. He was also a director of the 
Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Company, having 
been elected January i, 1895. 

In addition to his official duties he devoted a 
part of his spare time to improving the military 
standing of the citizen soldiery of New Jersey. 
After many years of service with the National 
Guard of that State, he won for himself the com- 
mission of Major and Engineer of the Second Brig- 
ade, which ranks among the finest volunteer organi- 
zations in the United States. In April, 1899, he 
was promoted to be Lieutenant Colonel and Quar- 
termaster on the staff of the Division Commander. 

Mr. Markley was a member of Camden Lodge, 
No. 15, F. and A. M.; Camden Lodge, No. 293, B. 
P. O. Elks ; the New Jersey Society of the Sons of 
Cincinnati, the New Jersey Society of Sons of the 
Revolution, the Loyal Legion of Pennsylvania, and 
the United Service Club of Philadelphia. He was 
a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church, Cam- 
den, and a member of several college fraternities. 

The funeral took place from his late residence 
in Camden on Saturday, April 7th. Rev Dr. Wil- 
liam H. Fishburn, of the First Presbyterian Church, 
officiated. Among the pall-bearers were United 
States Senator William J. Sewell, Attorney-General 
Grey, Superintendent A. O. Dayton, of the Penn- 

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sylvania Railroad, Col. Thomas Chambers, Col. D.. 
B. Murphy and John B. R. Cassady. Interment- 
was made in the family vault in Evergreen Ceme- 
tery. 

Mr. Markley took an interest in the moral move- 
ments of the day in the community in which he re- 
sided and along the lines of the railroads with which 
he was connected. Although at times his speech 
was brusque, an evident outcome of his military 
training, he aimed to be just and was always kind 
of heart and charitable of hand. A man of honor 
and integrity, a devoted son and brother and a good 
citizen, soldier and business man, his loss is keenly 
felt in the large circle of people who knew him. — 
The Pennsylvania Railroad Men's News. 

All who passed through freshman year with the 
Class of '76 remember big-hearted, genial, kindly 
"Ham" Markley with much affection. Although he 
did not graduate he was always deeply interested 
in Princeton and the Class, and attended the re- 
unions as opportunity permitted, being present at 
the Decennial dinner, and at the Sesquicentennial 
celebration, October 21, 1896. On this latter oc- 
casion two or three of the class lunched with him 
at the Inn and enjoyed his reminiscences of the old 
days, finding him little changed from the man they 
had known over twenty years before. That was 
the last class gathering where he was one of the 
number. 

In January, 1899, he had a severe attack of the 
grip, after which he never regained his customary 

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vigor, and to that disease is ascribed in some meas- 
ure his last illness. He died April 4, 1900, of cere- 
bral hemorrhage, at the home of his mother, in 
Camden. He was not married. H. L. H. 

LINCOLN WOOD MARSTON, Jr. Died No- 
vember 16, 1873. [See Record No. IV., page 153.] 

JOHN MILLS, Jr. 
No report. 

CHARLES TALBOT MITCHELL. Died Sep- 
tember 13, 1887. [See Record No. VI., page 122.] 

DAVID JAY MURPHEY, Jr. Died July 4, 1880. 
[See Record No. IV., page 157.] 

HENRY D. OLIPHANT, Trenton, New Jersey. 

"In my business (Deputy Clerk of the Circuit 
Court of the United States for the District of New 
Jersey) and in my immediate family no changes 
have taken place since my last report. The boys 
(twins) are preparing as rapidly as possible for 
Princeton, and think it a long stretch till '05, but 
after an experience of twenty-five years in 'the bil- 
lowy world,' like the rest of us, they will doubtless 
not think a few years a long time. 

"The last time I was at Princeton I heard a re- 
mark attributed to an old lady resident, that if many 
more millions came into the place she would have 
to get out. An apt illustration of the growth and 
expansion of Princeton University." 

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WILLIAM PEARSON, P. O. Box 258, Harrisburg, 
Pennsylv£inia. 
He is Prothonotary of the Middle District of the 
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and of the Harris- 
burg District of the Superior Court of Pennsyl- 
vania, having held the former position since 1882 
and the latter since 1895. He is the editor of Pear- 
son's Reports and author of Pearson's Supreme 
Court Practice, member of the Dauphin County 
Historical Society, Harrisburg Board of Trade and 
the Country Club of Harrisburg. He is not married. 

HON. ANDREW PRICE, Thibodeaux, Lafourche 
Parish, Louisiana. 

"There is little to add to that which I see you 
already have in the Record of 1896. I declined to 
run for Congress again, and my last term expired 
on March 4, 1897. I was elected one of the dele- 
gates from the State at large to the Constitutional 
Convention, which met in New Orleans in 1898, 
and adopted a new constitution for the State of 
Louisiana. 

"Latterly I have been giving my time and atten- 
tion to my private affairs, spending my winters at 
my home in Louisiana, on my sugar plantation, 
'Acadia,' and my summers at Donelson's, Tennes- 
see, at my stock farm, 'Clover Bottom.' 

"I was married June 26, 1879, to Miss Anna 
Margaret Gay, daughter of Hon. Edward J. Gay, of 
Iberville Parish, Pa. We have no children. 

"My interest in Princeton and the Class of '76 
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is not lessened by the twenty-five years which have 
passed since I was a freshman, and when I had the 
pleasure of knowing you and the other good 
fellows." 

MARTIN RALPH, 62 Willet Street, Jamaica, New 
York. 

Ralph writes under date of July 6, apologizing 
for not answering earlier, and saying that he had 
promised himself a visit to Princeton in June, but 
the very severe illness of a relative prevented. His 
interest in Princeton and '76 is still strong, though 
he feels that his long separation from them would 
render his answers to the questions propounded 
of little value, which, of course, is a great mistake. 

JOHN P. ROBERTS, P. O. Box 259, Columbus, 
Wisconsin. 

Roberts is one of the last to report, having de- 
layed writing that he might send his photograph, 
but his effort before the camera not being success- 
ful he sent his letter without the likeness, saying: 
"Anyhow, it would look like Old '36, so it is no 
matter. I have not forgotten '76 nor Princeton, for 
some of my happiest days were spent there." 

He reports as follows : 

2. "The 'since' is so long ago that I do not know 
how far to go to reach it. But, in general, my 
health has been better for the last six or seven years 
than before that time. I follow my repair work — 
organ cleaning, sewing machine repairing, clocks, 

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watches, painting, fancy and indoor, furniture, etc. 
— and for the last four or five years, as a hobby, 
took up photographing, and unless you go faster 
than the lightning I will surely be prepared to take 
your visage, providing you come near enough to 
and within range of my camera. I read and study 
more or less as I get opportunity, my preference 
just now is mathematical, geometry, trigonometry, 
etc." 

JAMES A. ROBINSON, 604 Monongahela Bank 
Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

"No title, just plain 'J^m.' 

2. "Business, the same (New York Continental 
Jewell Filtration Company) and very lively at 
present. 

3. "Like 'Jeff,' I do not believe in bigamy, and 
therefore have but the one good wife with which the 
Lord has blessed me. 

4. "There have been no 'additions or subtractions' 
since last report. 

7. "Life has been, on the whole. Very pleasant, 
and the only fault I can find is that it is too 'fleet- 
ing.' " 

JOSEPH M. ROSEBERRY, Belvidere, New 
Jersey. 

"My history since I last reported has been full 
of hard work and gratification, so far as success is 
concerned, and I am glad to say that I have been 
very fortunate in the trial of cases. My business 

ISO 



is a fairly good one, and I have about all I can do, 
so much so that I cannot attend to all of my busi- 
ness affairs, for I am interested to a small extent in 
iron ore and sand. I am making some money as I 
tread the pathway of life. 

"I have one child, a boy, born the 29th of April, 
1897, and his particular business now is mischief- 
making, much to his mother's annoyance and my 
discomfort. 

"I am not acquainted with the matter contained in 
the 5th question, except in the way of castigation, 
and that I consider as primary education now. 

"The future growth and expansion of Princeton 
University depend, to a considerable extent, upon 
the acquisition of large gifts of money and endow- 
ments, and to an organization suitable to the mod- 
ern methods of competition, and with it all a su- 
perior excellence in all kinds of athletic sports, be- 
cause it is with young men as with Nature, a selec- 
tion of the fittest; and, for the satisfaction of the 
parents, a superb training in educational matters. 

"My observations of life are that I am more in- 
debted to my early training at home than to all 
else. It is and has been my pole star, and if I 
strayed somewhat at times, its influence drew me 
back. 

"To work hard and long I learned, and it is to 
this, the mother of success, that useful men, in all 
pursuits, owe their advantages, for men are a part 
of nature, and it seems to be her rule to make all 

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things war with one another until they finally re- 
turn to their original condition. 

"The most man can do is to make as many days 
of sunshine in his calendar of life as possible, for 
many shadows and clouds that flit across our path- 
way come unsought and are generally hidden from 
the light of our fellow kind. 

"To avoid these, to forget them, to think that the 
members of the human race are subject to the same 
vicissitudes, to take of life its happiness and to 
forget its evils, are earthly happiness so far as it 
goes." 

THOMAS RANDOLPH SHEETS, 1039 Mar- 
quette Building, Chicago, Illinois. 
No report. 

OSCAR A. SLOAN, Monticello, Florida. 
No report. 

W. McB. SMITH, Belton, Texas. 

"History same as last report. No change in busi- 
ness except the organization of the Smith & Peyton 
Hardware Company, of which I am secretary and 
treasurer. I am secretary of the Board of Educa- 
tion of this city. 

4. "Same report as '96. My oldest, Lygon Corbin 
Smith, graduated in June from Wedemeyer's High 
School, Belton, as captain of the Military Depart- 
ment, Literary Course. My youngest, Oliver 
Carey, graduated from the Public High School, 

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May 24, and was elected class orator in a class of 
twenty-four. He will attend Austin College at 
Sherman, Texas, and later Princeton University. 
The oldest, Lygon Corbin, will attend the Univer- 
sity of Texas at Austin, Texas." 

Accompanying- programmes indicate that Corbin 
delivered an oration on "The Future of Texas," and 
that diplomas were presented by W. McB. Smith, 
Secretary of the Board. "McBeth" was East in 
June, but was unable to attend the Class reunion. 

JORDAN STOKES, Nashville, Tennessee. 

"There have been very few changes since my 
last report to you. I am still practicing law ; have 
never sought or desired political office, and there 
has been no change whatever in my domestic re- 
lations. 

"Remember me most kindly to my old friends, 
and I promise now that I shall strive most earnestly 
to be present at the next reunion." 

JONATHAN R. SWEET. Died June 3, 1897. 

After a brave fight against continued ifl-health, 
John was compelled to leave college in freshman 
year. He returned to his home in Newark, partly 
recovered his health and entered upon a course in 
medicine in New York City. 

Again he became ill, and finally he had to relin- 
quish all hope of a medical career, which had been 
his aim from childhood ; for his father was a physi- 
cian, and the whole line of the Sweet family were 
versed in simples and were natural doctors. 

153 



With patient resignation he turned from his 
books to the study of nature, and he became "one 
of the best botanists in New Jersey." He had a 
genuine love for flowers, and the daily donation 
from his garden, unobtrusively sent to the New 
York hospitals, made the flower mission of East 
Orange. 

In his home circle he was a devoted son and hus- 
band, and a sympathetic father, utterly unselfish 
and kind. In religion as in his friendships he was 
sincere and earnest, "one of those benignant souls 
who make a happy difference in the lives close 
around them, and in this way lift the average of 
earthly joy." E. D. L. 

REV. BEVERLEY ELLISON WARNER, D. D., 
21 15 Chestnut Street, New Orleans, Louis- 
iana. 

"Bev" is rector of Trinity Church, New Orleans. 
For titles he pleads guilty to M. A. (Trinity Col- 
lege), and D. D. (University of the South). But 
we will let him speak for himself: 

"Is it twenty-five years? Why, General, it can't 
be. And yet when I read that 'Cooley' is elected 
to a Reform Council in California I know that years 
and years must have passed. Things like that need 
time. 

"History! I've had no history. I've been plod- 
ding and doing what I could, gradually losing my 
hair and assuming something like embonpoint. It 
is true that another book has seen the light for 

154 



which I am responsible, 'The Facts and the Faith — 
a Study in the Rationalism of the Apostles' Creed,' 
but it did not create any conspicuous stir — of the 
right sort. One of the Church papers toyed with it 
for three pages, and wound up by saying that 'only 
one good thing could come from the publication of 
thie bad little book' — and what do you think that 
was? 'It will give his Bishop an opportunity to 
depose the author from the ministry.' Now, 
would you call that success? There were other 
criticisms, but that is the one that lingers with me 
as I grow old. It has a certain naivete about it, 
a frank and simple directness that appeals to one's 
better nature. As for the Bishop, he bought a 
copy. For the information of the boys I may say 
that it has been recently re-issued in paper covers 
at fifty cents. It must be sold somehow. 

"In 1896 I arose to the dignity of a D. D., the 
University of the South in its blindness conferring 
the same, and the next year was made an Adminis- 
trator of Tulane University of Louisiana, which 
answers to the Trustee of other colleges and 
universities. It gives a man a certain degree 
of self-respect who has a vivid memory of his fresh- 
man days at Princeton, to be a Trustee. As Master 
of Ceremonies at the recent inauguration of a new 
President of the University, I thrilled with pride at 
herding a whole flock of college presidents and Su- 
preme Court judges into line — and remembered how 
I had thrilled in other days (also in other ways) 
when college presidents were ordering me about. 

155 



"Outside of my regular work I have a chronic 
habit of lecturing, mainly on Shakespeare — ^but it 
does very little harm. 

"As to clubs, I am a non-resident member of the 
Century Club, New York, and President of the 
Round Table Club, New Orleans. 

"I am quite sure — without troubling her with the 
question — that Mrs. Warner would have objected, 
any time during the past five years, to my marrying 
again. Of course, I understand that you want 
things to fill up the Record, but I know that she is 
not loyal enough to '76 even to make an effort to 
change things as they are. 

"We are pretty conservative down here in Louis- 
iana, and that may account for the fact that we 
have stubbornly resisted all inducements to alter 
the names, or even the dates of birth, of our chil- 
dren. They remain exactly as they have been re- 
ported : Gertrude, Philip and John. 

"Philip is at school not far from Princeton, and 
has the Princeton fever, although he is normally fit- 
ted for the navy. He may tread those historic 
Avalks in a year or so — I only hope not in his father's 
footsteps. 

"There is an improvement in the English prepar- 
ation of our secondary schools, but there is room for 
more. I am old-fashioned enough to think that 
English is the most important of all studies for our 
boys and girls. 

"Observations on life after twenty-five years? 
Well, it's a large order. 

156 



"Most of- us have probably gotten what we de- 
served. Many of us more. I am among the latter 
class, and I am profoundly grateful that, in spite of 
so much of my own effort to the contrary, my lines 
have fallen in pleasant places. I am more and more 
convinced that the boy is father to the man; that 
the studies, the tastes, the natural inclinations of 
a lad should be more attended to both by parents 
and teachers than they used to be, at all events. I 
know that the things I have done best in life are 
the things I had a taste for at college. The use of 
the elective system in its broadest application in my 
day would have been of inestimable benefit to me. 
I hope it will grow. I mean that my own boys 
shall go nowhere to college where they will not 
have the largest opportunity to develop the thing 
that is in them to do and to be. 

"I wish I could go to the supper, but I can't. My 
holiday is so long Anyway that I try not to shave it 
off too often. 

"Give my love to the boys. I see them so seldom. 
One day, two or three years ago, 'Andy' Price, 'Yap*^ 
Walker and I came together on a side street in New 
Orleans, and it needed all my influence with the 
police to prevent an arrest for riot. And 'Hendy'' 
is a usual experience when I go to New York. Bless 
them all. We had good times of old. Some of the 
details are not to be recalled often, but there was 
heart in the old life, and enthusiasm, and joy." 

In the fall of 1897 there was an outbreak of yel- 
low fever in New Orleans, and "Bev," who had been 

157 



passing the summer at Litchfield, Conn., returned 
home that he might be with his congregation. He 
was attacked by the disease and reported to have 
died. He saw two obituaries of himself, which he 
found "pleasant reading, but not exhilarating" ; one 
called him "d. pious martyr." 

The following is taken from an article in the New 
York Times of October 8, 1900 : 

Tulane University has a new President, whose 
name is Alderman, and, introducing him at the ex- 
ercises which marked the opening of the term, the 
Rev. Dr. Beverley Warner said that when the peo- 
ple of the city first heard the name of the new Pres- 
ident they had probably exclaimed "What ! bring 
another Alderman to New Orleans ! We rejoice 
that he is here. He is to train the future Aldermen 
of New Orleans, and he is to train them so that we 
may hope he will purify even the City Hall." 

No sooner had Dr. Warner's speech appeared in 
print than Mayor Paul Capde Vielle gave vehement 
expression to his anger and indignation that any- 
body should have intimated the need of purifying 
the City Hall. He severely denounced the doctor 
for using his wit against a municipal administration 
like that with which New Orleans is at present fa- 
vored. These remarks were submitted to Dr. War- 
ner, and he immediately denied any intention to of- 
fend, explaining that his speech was extemporan- 
eous, and that the spirit of his words had been mis- 
understood. He wrote to the Mayor a letter of re- 
gret that the latter should have seen anything per- 

158 



sonally offensive in the introductory address. The 
Mayor, in a letter of reply, accepted the communi- 
cation as an apology and begged the doctor to ac- 
cept the assurance of his continued respect and es- 
teem. 



SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

ISAAC WELLING COOLEY, 914 Walnut Street, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

"I am now and have been for ten years en- 
gaged in life and accident insurance. I have had a 
few ups and several downs in business. In the last 
few years have had better health than formerly. 

"I have never married, so can not be expected to 
answer questions 3, 4 and 5." 

HON. ROLLA WELLS, Mayor's Office, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 

"I have nothing to add to my report for the Rec- 
ord, with the exception that in March last I was 
nominated by the regular Democratic City Conven- 
tion as a candidate for Mayor of the City of St. 
Louis. The election was held the second day of 
April, and I received a plurality of about eight thou- 
sand votes, and was inaugurated on the ninth day 
of the same month." 

A New York newspaper had the following the 
day after the election : 

Rolla Wells, the Mayor-elect of St. Louis, is a 

159 



wealthy real estate operator. He inherited a large 
fortune from his father, the late ex-Congressman 
Erastus Wells, who established the first omnibus 
line in St. Louis. Erastus Wells also secured the 
first charter for and built the first railroad in that 
city. His son, Rolla, when a young man, drove 
a car on this line for a while. 

The campaign for Mayor this year was particu- 
larly interesting because the man elected will serve 
during the World's Fair to be held in that city in 
commemoration of the Louisiana purchase. 

Mr. Wells is about fifty years old. He voted 
for Palmer and Buckner in 1896, being one of the 
organizers of the National Gold Democratic party. 
He has never held a public office. 

This is from a western newspaper: 

ROASTED BY BRYAN. 

Lincoln, Neb., March 16. — W. J. Bryan, in an 
editorial entitled "A Sample of Harmony," in the 
Commoner, roundly scores the St. Louis Democ- 
racy for nominating Rolla Wells for Mayor. Wells 
renounced his allegiance to the Democratic party 
in 1896 and openly supported McKinley in 1900, 
since which time, Mr. Bryan says. Wells has given 
no evidence of having a desire to return to the fold.^ 



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Later 

Daisan, Koto-Gakko, 
Kyoto, Japan, July 9, 1901. 
My dear friend Harrison: 

I beg your pardon not to have answered to you 
sooner, notwithstanding of your kind letters sent to 
rrie several times. 

The fact was this, that it is quite a labor to me to 
compose English, so I have often laid it aside on 
account of interruptions, of daily occurrence. 

I have not much material to report to you. 

I have eight children, six bo3^s, two girls. They 
are all well. Is there any one among our classmates 
to contest with me in getting so many offsprings? 

The first and second boys are now in the State 
Military College, expecting to offer their lives for 
the sake of defense of humanity and honor of their 
own country. 

The rest are going to secondary and elementary- 
schools, excepting the last, who is only two years, 
old. 

I am still serving in the sam.e college as before. 

The most important work to promote the welfare 
and standing of our country is especially to produce 
useful men in every direction. 

Toward such an aim, I believe I am doing good. 

If I could write English freely it would be a great 
pleasure to me to tell you about a confusion now 
going on in Eastern Asia and how we are situated,, 
and aiming in future. 

Ever yours sincerely, 

H. Orita. 
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Anness, 

Ball, 

Barkley, 

Beach, 

Bonner, 

Brown, H., 

Brown, J. P., 

Brown, O. B., 

Butler, W. A., Jr., 

Chaffee, 

Chambers, 

Chapin, 

Clarke, 

Conger, A. B., 

Coursen, 

Cowan, 

Cowart, 

Davis, 

Denny, 

Dresser, 

Duffield, 

Edwards, 

Evans, 

Finley, 

[d. Feb. 12, 1894] 
Fulton, A. A., 
Gillespie, 
Greene, S. B., 
Greene, W. B., Jr., 
Gregory, 
Hamilton, H. P., 



MARRIAGES 

Graduate Members 

Ida L. Garrison, 
Ida M. Perkins, 
Mary E. Conwell, 
Eleanor T. Orbison, 
Kate Helena Griffith, 
iMinnie Toland Glassell, 
JVEinnie Evans Wheeler, 
Jeannette Gebhart, 
Louise Terry Collins, 
J^aura C. Putnam, 
Cornelia P. Williams, 
Florence Adelaide Johnson, 
Mary Frances Barnes, 
Mary Stockton, 

[d. Nov. 10, 1896]. 
Sophie Chester Johns, 
Julia Nutting, 
Florence Shepherd, 
Harriet W. Riddle, 
Lucy Chase Chapman, 
Genevieve Tyler, 
Madge Cecil Wall, 
Mary Alice Shirk, 
Lizzie R. Richards, 
Ida May Davis, 

Florence Wishard, 
E. C. Calloway, 
Jennie Lee Niven, 
Katherine Porter Greene, 
Florence Adelaide Lindsley, 
Fannie C. Snow, 
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October 11, 1882. 
October 13, 1881. 
May 27, 1879. 
August 10, 1882. 
October 20, 1880. 
December 13, 1882. 
November 7, 1888. 
June 12, 1883. 
October i, 1884. 
(May 14, 1879. 
May 7, 1884. 
April 5, 1883. 
January i, 1885. 
June 8, 1880. 

January 12, 1886. 
November 20, 1878. 
April 30, 1891. 
January 17, 1882. 
July 5, 1881. 
November 22, 1881. 
November 21, 1882. 
January i, 1880. 
November i, 1882. 
July 9, 1889. 

July 26, 1883. 
September 20, 1880. 
November 20, 1889. 
September 2, 1880. 
November 5, 1895. 
January 20, 1887. 



Hamilton, R. W., 


Martha Lilian Donaldson, 


June 22, 1882. 


Harrison, 


Frances H. Tyrrell, 


July II, 1888. 


Henderson, 


Annie L. Carter, 


April 2, 1880. 


Henry, 


Jane Irwin Robeson, 




Jenkins, 


Susie M. Scruggs, 


May 14, 1882. 


Johnson, R'd W., 


Helen Woodburn McGregor, 


June I, 1893. 


Johnson, Robt. W., 


Julia Watts Hall Brock, 


October i, 1879. 


Jones, D. B., 


Nora L. Bayley, 

[d. March 17, 1899]. 


June II, 1879. 


Kaufman, W. T., 


Grace Brockway, 


January 21, 1880. 


Knox, 


Harriet L. Crozier, 


May 26, 1880. 


Liston, 


p;sabel Lapsley, 


June 9, 1896. 


Long, 


Lizzie B. Marple, 


June 23, 1876. 


Lott, 


Eliza Farless Wager, 


September 17, 1885. 


Lytle, 


Mary E. Arnold, 


October 12, 1881. 


Mann, J. M., 


Fannie B. Carter, 


April 18, 1883. 


Markoe, 


Madeline Shelton, 


March 9, 1882. 


Marquand, 


Alice Ogsten, 


June 8, 1881. 


[d. Dec. 20, 1885]. 






Martin, 


Clara A. Evans, 


July 2, 1878. 


[d. April 29, 1886; 


1. 




McKittrick, 


Julia Humphrey Seward, 


October 3, 1889. 


Milburn, 


Nannie Redin Woodward, 


December 2, 1880. 


Miller, 


Lena S. Harris, 


March 7, 1894. 


Noble, 


Mary Hays, 


April 14, 1881. 


Orita, 


Miss Ononya, 


August I, 1878. 


Parker, 


Mary Hunt Bedle, 


April 30, 1890. 


Patterson, 


Elizabeth Stewart Johnston, 


November 28, 1882. 


Perrine, 


Elizabeth Wyckoff Conover, 


November 29, 1900. 


Plumley, 


Mary S. C. Trask, 


December 25, 1876. 


[d. May 14, 1901 


]. 




Pugh, 


Nettie S. Frisbie, 
[d. June 6, 1892]. 


November 16, 1880. 


Rice, 


Rilla Hays, 


June I, 1882. 


Riker, 


Mallie Blair Snyder, 


October 15, 1891. 


Riley, 


Beta M. Hard, 


August 27, 1878. 


Rudy, 


Cecilia Baer, 


August 25, 1883. 



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Schenck, 

[d. June 21, I 
Scudder, 
Shoemaker, 
Smith, F. B., 
Smith, F. S., 
Smith, J. A. L., 
Starr, 

Stevenson ,A. R., 
Stewart, 
Symmes, 
Taylor, 
Todd, H. A., 
Todd, R. N., 
Turnure, 
Van Dike, 
Van Lennep, 
Walker, L. G. 
Wardlaw, 
Weart, 
White, 
Whittlesey, 
Wilson, R. D., 
Wilson, S. G., 
Woods, 
Woolverton, 



Butler, H. R., 

Cecil, 

Cook, 

[d. Dec. — , 1887] 
Hegeman, 
McKoy, R. H., 
McKoy, W. B., 
Smith, C R., 
Stevenson, W. P., 



Mary A. Smith, 

H. Helen Damarin, 
Emma J. Coulter, 
Anne Grahame Dennis, 
Henrietta F. Horrie, 
Mary Louisa Johnson, 
Alice Dunning, 
Mary Margaret Kennedy 
Mary Adeline Thompson, 
Hattie M. Sutphen, 
Emily Heyward Drayton, 
Marian Gilman, 

Tryphena Phelps, 

Elisabeth Harrison, 

Henrietta Spaulding Murray, 

Clara Reeves Hart, 

Adele Branham, 

Mary Hoge, 

Clara S. Pendexter, 

Mary E. Lamb, 

Lilian Bell, 

Ella Conway Howard, 

Annie Dwight Rhea, 

Sarah Elizabeth Johnson, 

Minnie Primrose Dickinson, 

School of Science 

Virginia Hays, 
Elizabeth Robinson, 
Mary Garretson, 

Bessie Conrad Moyer, 
Maria A. Brown, 
Katherine Bacon, 
Isabel Bacon Rogers, 
Marianne W. Woods, 
164 



1883. 



February 26, 1884. 

November 20, 1879. 
January i, 1878. 
September 21, 1892, 
March 24, 1885. 
August 26, 1879. 
June 8, 1898. 
April II, 1882. 
June 18, 1879. 
May 9, 1882. 
October 15, 1879. 
July 30, 1891. 
December 27, 1892, 
May 20, 1890. 
December 2.7, 
April 28, 1886 
September 12, 
July 29, 1880. 
April 17, 1888. 
September 22, 1882. 
April 30, 1885. 
June 25, 1889. 
September 16, 1886. 
June 2, 1881. 
May 6, 1884. 



November 25, 1890.. 
November 28, 1882. 
November 10, 1884- 

June 5, 1879. 
May 21, 1879. 
December 13, 1886.. 
June 6, 1900. 
September 29, 1881. 



Non-Graduate Members 



Beattie, 


Ruby Miller, 


July 28, 1891. 


Cuvellier, 


Mary Antonia Toffiez, 


June 5, 1876. 


T^ol 1 1 r»VAf 




tO-./^ 


JEly, 


Emma D. Palmer, 


, , 1079. 
May 27, 1880. 


Fulton, C. C, 


Anna W. Meredith, 


Ootober 13, 1881. 


■Green, W. W., 


Jessica R. Thayer, 




Holden, 


Ella C. Webb, 


March 5, 1879. 


Kaufman, H. B., 


Minnie L. Myers, 


June — , 1882. 


[d. Dec. 27, 1882]. 


: 


: 


Kyle, 


Elizabeth R. Mitchell, 


March 29, 1883. 


[d. April 5, 1889]. 






Laird, 


Fannie E. Hadfield, 


August 23, 1877. 


Leason, 


Hannah R. Reynolds, 
[d. May 2, 1901]. 


June 29, 1880. 


Lyon, J. G., 


Adelina C. Langwonthy, 


November 22, 1882. 


Macky, 


Lizzie E. Hoopes, 


September 4, 1878. 


Mann, H., 


Harriett D. Stellwagon, 


April 30, 1878. 


[d. July 31, 1889]. 






Mills, 






Murpliey, 


Annie Sharp, 


tOO/^ 




[d. July 4, 1880]. 






Oliphant, 


Elizabeth Vandeveer Dayton 


, October 20, 1886. 


Price, 


Anna Margaret Gay, 


June 26, 1879. 


Ralph, 


Jane M. A. Pohlmann, 


April 18, 1884. 


Robinson, J. A., 


Sarah K. Loane, 


April 29, 1891. 


Roseberry, 


Mary Winter White, 


August IS, 1891. 


Sheets, 




r 


Sloan, 


Lizzie Sloan, 


December i, 1886. 


Smith, W. McB., 


Fannie B. Corbin, 


January i, 1877. 


Stokes, 


Mary Whitworth, 


October 11, 1877. 


Sweet, 


Clara Baggott, 


June 16, 1887. 


[d. June 3, 1897]. 




Warner, 


Alice Madeleine Stoughton, 


June I, 1880. 


Non-Graduate Members — School 


of Science 


Wells, 


Jennie Howard Parker, 
16s 


October 2, 1878. 



BIRTHS 



Anness, 


Marjorie Belle, 




Edna Louise, 




Irving Garrison, 


Ball, 


*Jean Ross, 




*Beatrice, 




Frances Ethel, 




Hannah Dorothy, 


Barkley, 


Earl Conwell, (Class of 1904) 




Marjorie Agnes, 




Mary Gladys, 


Beach, 


Mary Hollingsworth Morris, 




> Nancy Woodbridge, 




Eleanor Elliott, 


Bonner, 


Griffith, 




Courtlandt, 




Hampton, 




Kenneth, 




Kate d'Auterroches, 


Brown, H„ 


Adelaide J., 




Lucie Toland, 




Eleanor Glassel, 




Harrington, Jr., 




A son, 


Brown, J. P., 


Dorothy, 




Wendell Wheeler, 




Margaret, 




A daughter, 


Butler, W. A., Jr., 


William Allen, 3d, 




Lyman Collins, 




Charles Terry Collins, 




Lydia Coit, 




Louise Tracy, 



*Deceased. 



September 20, 1883. 
July 28, 1885. 
June 2, 1887. 
July II, 1882. 
January 16, 1884. 
May 12, 1886. 
December 20, 1888. 
April 30, 1880. 
March 15, 1882. 
June 7, 1889. 
June 17, 1885. 
March 14, 1887. 
April 22,, 1891. 
November 4, 1885, 
June 5, 1887. 

[d. June 3, 1889]. 
June 30, 1890. 
March 14, 1892. 
November 22, 1895. 
February 8, 1885. 
October 7, 1887. 
October 10, 1889. 
February 4, 1894. 
April 16, 1896. 
September 13, 1889.- 
June 30, 1892. 
October 20, 1893. 
July 6, 1 90 1. 
January 7, 1886. 
January 2, 1888. 
September 20, 1889. 
November 19, 1891. 
October 22, 1894. 



166 



ChaflFee, 



Chambers, 

Chapin, 
Clarke, 

Conger, A. B., 



Coursen, 



Cowan, 



Harold Putnam, 
Eleanor Billings, 
James Foster, 
Arthur Billings, Jr., 
Margaret Caroline, 
Mary Ellen, 

Lawrence Eric, 
Ralph Gordon, 

Talcott Williams, 
Kate Ethel, 
Dorothea Nesbitt, 
Helen Welles, 

Francis Stuart, 
Grace Darling, 
Robert Burns, 
Harrison Barnes, 
Paul McCosh, 
Francis Palmer, 
Mary Stockton, 
Caroline Bayard, 
Richard Stockton, 
Arthur McCrea, 
Katherine Rutgers, 
John De Peyster, 
Bayard Stockton, 



Helen Remsen, 
Marion, 
Gladys, 

Donald Chester, 
[d. July 15, I 
Ronald Chester, 
Cora E., 

167 



April 25, 1880. 
November 17, 1881. 
June 9, 1883. 
January 2, 1885. 
February 6, 1887. 
August 29, 1889. 

[d. Aug. — , 1890]. 
October 25, 1891. 
February 22, 1885. 

[d. Jan. 28, 188B]. 
October 19, 1886. 
April 2^, 1889. 
May 20, 1896 . 
November 24, 1884. 
[d. Jan. 22, 1887]. 
February 3, 1888. 
March 12, 1886. 
August 13, 1887. 
September 10, 1890. 
September 24, 1892. 
November 29, 1895. 
March 20, 1881. 
January 4, 1883. 
April 19, 1886. 
October 29, 1887. 
April 19, 1889. 
March 27, 1891. 
May 21, 1893. 

[d. Sept. 8, 1893]. 
April 12, 1895. 
February 2-], 1887. 

July IS, 1888. 

December 2, 1893. 
September 20, 1879. 



Cowan, 


Florence J., 


January 26, 1885. 




Lillie, 


August 12, 1886. 
[d. in infancy]. 


Denny, 


Margaret Collins, 


April 10, 1882. 




Elizabeth Chapman, 


January 7, 1884. 




William R., Jr., 


September 12, 1888. 
[d. Mch 24, 1890]. 




Edith Allen, 


December 21, 1890. 




Lucy Chase, 


January 21, 1893. 




Collins, Jr., 


June 10, 1899. 


Dresser, 


Laurence Tyler, 


September ir, 1882. 




Genevieve, 


May 18, 1886. 




Eloise, 


May II, 1889. 




Marie, 


December 9, 1890. 




Chandler, 


July 3, 1896. 


Duffield, 


George Barry, (Class 


of 1904) March i, 1884. 




Elizabeth Fletcher, 


March 30, 1889. 


Edwards, 


Richard Elbert, 


October 8, 1880. 




Milton Arthur, 


December 10, 1882. 




Mary Alice, 


February 10, 1884. 




Clara Ellen,, 


July 27, 1885. 




Florence Esther, 


June 17, 1887. 


Evans, 


Edward Richard, 


March 31, 1884. 




A boy, 


[d. in infancy]. 




Arthur Lewis, 


February 26, 1890. 


Pinley, 


Marietta Davis, 


November 28, 1891. 


[d. Feb. 12, 1894]. 






Fulton, A. A., 


Edith Mary, 


June 3, 1884. 




Theodore Cuyler, 


July 20, 1886. 




Harold Wishard, 


July 21, 1888. 




Ralph Whittier, 


July 28, 1891. 




Grace, 


January 23, 1893. 




rTr»t*!5r*p TT 


jOno 


Gillespie, 


Annie Virginia, 


, loyy. 
March 25, 1882. 
[d. Jan. 17, 1886]. 




Kenneth, 


January 22, 1884. 




Alexander, 


November 23, 1885. 



168 



Gillespie, 

Hamilton, H. P., 

Hamilton, R. W., 

Henderson, 

Henry, 

Jenkins, 



Johnson, Robt. W., 



Jones, D. B., 



Hattie Perrie, 

Calloway, ] 

Joseph, ) 

George Yeakle, 

Eugene, 

Albert Edward, 

Harold Webb, 

Elizabeth, 

Eben Stuart Burt, 

Robert Victor, 

Henry Warner, 

Florence Vaulx, 

Howard H., (Class of 1904) 

Caroline Mary, 

Snowden, 

James Caldwell, Jr., 

Welling Field, 

Eleanor Marjorie, 

Lydia Louise, 

Theodore Dwight, 

Mary Eunice, 

Susie Lodema, 

A girl, (yet unnamed) 

Anna Julia, 

Ella Brock, 

William Fell, 

Katharine Barker, 

Robert W., Jr., 

J. P. Brock, 

Gwethalyn, 
Catherine, 
Herbert, 
Winifred, 
Owen Barton, 

169 



June 27, 1888. 
November 4, 1891. 

December 6, 1893. 
September 20, 1897. 
December 28, 1887. 
January 20, 1892. 
January 15, 1894. 
March 30, 1886. 
November 12, 1888. 
February 24, 1881. 
June 30, 1883. 



May 31, 1883. 
September 23, 1884. 
August 24, 1886. 
October 10, 1888. 
October 16, 1890. 
July 17, 1894- 
November 30, 1898. 
April I, 1901. 
July IS, 1880. 
July 26, 1882. 
August 18, 1884. 
October 7, 1885. 
June 3, 1891. 
September 3, 1894. 

[d. Sept. 29, 1896]. 
August 18, 1880. 
April 30, 1885. 
May 16, 1888. 
November i, 1889. 
June 28, 1894. 



Kaufman, W. T., 
Knox, 



Listen, 

Long, 

Lytle, 



Mann, J. M., 

Markoe, 
Marquand, 

[d. Dec. 20, 
Martin, 

[d. April 29, 
McKittrick, 

Milburn, 



Grace, ") 
Gladys, j 
Harriet Elizabeth, 
Martha Elda, 

Alexander Williams, 

Florence Anna, 

George Crozier, 

Samuel Edgar, 

Helen May, 

Harry Gaylord, 

Esther Lydia, 

Margaret Lapsley, 

Robert Lapsley, 

Sarah, 

Olive Pauline, 

Marion Olive, 

Stephen Stacy, 

Joseph Jay, 

Julia Arnold, 

Sophie Ridgely, 

Florence Rebecca, 

Scott Harrison, 

Richard Ridgely, Jr., 

Peter Carter, (Class of 1905) 

Joseph Francis, 

Francis H., Jr., 

Three children, one deceased. 



1885]. 

Frederick Perry, 
1896]. Margaret Helen, 
Seward, 
Marjorie, 

Joseph Woodward, 
Mary Eleanor, 
John Rudisill, 

170 



April 8, 1884. 

May 3, 1881. 
October 28, 1884. 

[d. July I, 1895]^ 
March 18, 1886. 
October 22, 1888. 
March 11, 1891. 
February 22, 1892, 
December 4, 1893. 
February 22, 1895. 
July 22, 1899. 
April 27, 1897. 
December — , 1898. 
October 6, 1900. 
December 5, 1879. 
September 27, 1881, 
May 29, 1884. 
March 22, 1886. 
July 15, 1882. 
August 25, 1884. 
December 28, 1885. 
June 27, 1889. 
July — , 1891. 
February 4, 1884. 
December 2, 1890. 
June II, 1884. 



May 8, 1882. 

November 12, 1888. 

November 21, 1890. 

[d. Sept. 5, 1893J. 

November 21, 1881. 

December 14, 1882. 

December 25, 1884. 



Millburn, 


Martha Page, 


November 23, 1887. 
[d. Nov. 26, 1888]. 




'Emily Snowden, 


January 10, 1890. 




William Ryland, 


July 28, 1891. 




Page, Jr., 


May 23, 1896. 


Miller, 


George Scudder, 


July 21, 1880. 




Evelyn, 


October 21, 1881. 




Katherine, 


June 10, 1886. 


Noble, 


Minnie Hays, 


December 12, 1883. 




Earl, 


June 10, 1886. 


Orita, 


Seven children. 




Parker, 


Robert Craig Bedle, 


August 29, 1895. 


Patterson, 


William Johnston, 


October 3, 1883. 
[d. Jan. 7, 1894]. 




Joseph, 


April 12, 1885. 




Robert Wilson, Jr., 


November 19, 1887. 




Sara Stewart, 


June 12, 1890. 


Plumley, 


Howard, 


November 22, 1878. 


[d. May 14, 


igoi]. Marion Stuart, 


January 9, 1881. 




Gardiner Spring, 


January 15, 1883. 




Mary Sanger, 


October 19, 1885. 




Margaret Lovell, 


June II, 1890. 




Sarah Goodenough, 


September 25, 1893. 


Pugh, 


Mary Louise, 


November i, 1882. 




Charles F., 


February 7, 1884. 
[d. Mch 4, 1894]. 




John C. L., Jr., 


December 7, 1886. 


Rice, 


Charles Herbert, 


December 10, 1884, 




Helen, 


December 29, 1890. 




Paul Harper, 


October 23, 1893. 




William Hays, 


November 24, 1896.. 




Mabel, 


August 6, 1898. 


Riker, 


Gertrude, 


February 14, 1895. 


Riley, 


Alden K., Jr., 


June 22, 1879. 




Albert G., 


December 3, 1882. 




Robert H., 


June 23, 1886. 



171 



Rudy, 



Sclienck, 

[d. June 21, 1898]. 

Scudder, 
Shoemaker, 



Smith, F. B., 
Smith, F. S., 

Smith, J. A. L., 



Stevenson, A, R.; 



Thomas Edward, 

James Hannibal, 

Susan Penelope, 

Alma, 

Elsie Mercein, 

Clinton Stewart, 

Charles Damarin, 
Loraine James, 
Albert Jesse R., 
Parshall Morse, 
Mary, 

Frank Lebbeus, 
Emma Florence, 
Franklin B., Jr., 
Alice McPherson, 
Charlotte Patterson, 
Eleanor Stafford, 
Gladys Walton, 

Mildred Walton, 
Julian Tuzo, 
Eleanor Patton, 

Allan Johnson, 

Mary Louisa, 

Maud Rae, 

Sampson Hodge McCullough, 

Ethel Wishard, 

Thomas Kennedy, 

Caroline Paxton, 

Alexander Russell, Jr., 
Stuart Riddle, 
172 



November 25, 1884. 
[d. Nov. 28, 1884]. 
October 29, 1885. 
February 8, 1889. 
November 28, 1890, 
March 27, 1887. 
October 14, 1888. 

[d. Oct. 21, 1889]. 
October 21, 1883. 
December 22, 1878. 
November 23, 1882. 
January 9, 1887. 
July 18, 1888. 
[d. Oct. 4. 1889]. 

December i, 1892. 

August 28, 1879. 
April 5, 1885. 
November 9, 1886. 
March 28, 1886. 
June 6, 1887. 

[d. Feb. 22, 1889]. 
November 7, 1890. 
April 20, 1894. 
May 29, 1880. 

[d. June 28, 1893]. 
May 16, i88r. 

[d. Aug. 21, 1889]. 
December 30, 1882. 
December 9, 1884. 
August 20, 1886. 
February 11, 1888. 
November 10, 1883. 
March 5, 1888. 

[d. Nov. 28, 1895]. 
May 28, 1895. 
November 14, 1896. 



Stewart, 

Taylor, 
Todd, H. A., 

Todd, R. N., 



Turnure, 
Van Dike, 



Van Lennep, 

Wardlaw, 



Whittlesey, 
Wilson, R. D, 



Wilson, S. G., 



Helen, 

Harris Bates, (Class of 

George Black, Jr., 

Weir, 

Edith, 

Percival Drayton, 

Mabel Hayward, 

Eliza Gilman, 

Martha Clover, 

Henry Wallingford, 

Paul Wallingford, 

Robert Nairne, Jr., 

Agnes May, 

Tryphena E., ~> 

Francis S., j 

[d. Sept. II, 1900]. 
David, 
John Edward, 

John Le Roy, 
Rebecca Reeves, 
Virginia Randolph, 
Blanche Lewis, 
Eloise Mary, 
Carolina Cunningham, 
Walter Bell, 
Cedric Fauntleroy, 
Raynor D., 
Philip Howard, 
Eleanor Stewart, 
Sara Bruce, 
Annie Elizabeth, 
Jane Pope, 
Julia Baylor, 
Samuel Rhea, 

Mary Agnes, 
173 



March 21, 1880. 
1903) May 26, 1882. 

November 6, 1884. 
December 14, 1893. 
August II, 1880. 
September 8, 1882. 
November 10, 1884. 
April 22, 1892. 
March 5, 1894. 
August 2, 1897. 
November 15, 1899. 
October 10, 1893. 
October 8, 1896. 

October 29, 1899. 

November 20, 1899. 
December 12, 1889. 

[d. Jan. 6, 1891]. 
April 2, 1891. 
February 19, 1887. 
August I, 1881. 
August 6, 1883. 
June 4, 1886. 
July 19, 1891. 
February 20, 1886. 
March 24, 1889. 
December 12, 1892. 
April 19, 1890. 
June 21, 1892. 
May 17, 1894. 
November 10, 1896. 
December 23, 1898. 
May 19, 1901. 
March 6, 1890. 

[d. Nov. 22,, 1891]. 
September 10, 1892. 



.Wilson, S. G.. 
Woods, 



Wolverton, 



Rose Dulles, 
Esther Foster, 
Andrew Wilkins, Jr., 
Catherine T., 
James S., 
Margaretta M., 
William J., 
Marianne W., 
Sarah E., 
Joseph M., Jr., 
Primrose, 
Dorothy, 



July 25, 1894- 
September 21, 1897. 
August 13, 1899. 
March 10, 1882. 
August 24, 1883. 
May 20, 1886. 
December 11, 1888. 
April 17, 1890. 
September i, 1893. 
June 6j 1896. 
-March 7, 1886. 
August 13, 1895. 



Butler, H. R., 

i 

Cecil, 



Cook, 

[d. Dec. — , 1887]. 
Hegeman, 

McKoy, R. H., 



School of Science 

Helen, 

Howard Russell, Jr., 
Mary Robinson, 
Stuart R., 
Lucy P., 

Martha B., 
John G., Jr., 

Russell H., 
Edmund Garretson, 

Lucy Moyer, 
Aletta, 

Mary Hasell, 
Louis Brown, 
Robert Hasell, Jr., 
Adair Morey, 
Douglas Hart, 



August—, 1891. 

[d. Aug. I, 1893]. 
November 5, 1896. 
November 16, 1883. 
November 20, 1884. 
May S, 1886. 

[d. Dec. 26, 1894]. 
February i, 1888. 
September 5, 1889. 

[d. June 20, 1891]. 
February 4, 1892. 
November 9, 1885. 



April 17, 1880. 
October 30, 1883 
April 23, 1880. 
April 30, 1883. 
June 7, 1885. 
February 23, 
July 7, 1894- 



174 



McKoy, W. B., 

Smith, C. R., 
Stevenson, W. P.^ 



Elizabeth F., 
William Ancrum, 
Henry Bacon, 
Francis Kelton, 
Mowry, 
Carleton R., 
Sylvia W., 
Walker Woods, 
Margaretta Paxton, 



December 14, 1887. 
May 29, 1890. 



August — , 1891. 
August — , 1892. 
September — , 1895. 
September 9, 1882. 
September i, 1883. 



Non-Graduate Members 



Cuvellier, 



Delllcker, 
Fulton, C. C, 



Green, W. W., 
Holden, 



Laird, 



^Deceased. 



*Vivian M. W., 
*Charles, 
Rene William, 
Toffiez Charles, 
Lydia Jeannette, 
Harold Raymond, 
Carmelita Henrietta, 
Mary W., 
Edith, 

Cecil C, Jr., 
James A., 
Helen R., 
Margaretta Webb, 
Eleanor Sanford, 
Edward Packard, Jr., 
Elizabeth Cebra, 
Roberta, 
Renwick S., 
Robert B., 
Harold S., 
Olive F., ) 
Paul A., j 

I7S 



August 26, 1877. 
December 24, 1878. 
November 3, 1879. 
November 10, 1882. 
May 10, 1884. 
June 20, 1887. 
July 9, 1889. 
April — , 1880. 
April 23, 1884. 
October 12, 1886. 
August 18, 1889. 
October — , 1889. 
July 12, 1880. 
March 12, 1882. 
January 9, 1884. 
December 3, 1885. 
July 2, 1881. 
March 7, 1885. 
August 25, 1888. 
August 8, 1 891. 

October 25, 1893. 



Leason, 


Mary Laird, 


April 16, 1881. 




Jefferson Reynolds, 


August II, 1883. 




Helen Ross, 


January 5, 1889. 




Judith Dull, 


July 5, 1891. 




Myroine F., 


January i, 1895. 


Lyon, J. G., 


James B., 3d, 


October 3, 1883. 




Prescott L., 


July 25, 1888. 




Lowell Thayer, 


May 3, 1892. 


Macky, 


Helen Hoopes, 


June 26, 1879. 




Henry Ewing, 


August 23, 1880. 




Lucy Walker, 


June 24, 1883. 




Alice Thompson, 


November 19, 1888. 
[d. Dec. 3, 1889]. 


Mann, H., 


Ethel Margarite, 


December 29, 1879. 
[d. Aug. 19, 1880], 




Emma, 


January 13, 1882. 
[d. Feb. 28, 1882]. 


Oliphant, 


Alfred Dayton, ( 
Duncan, (^ 


October 28, 1887. 




Elizabeth Vanderveer, 


November 11, 1891. 


Ralph, 


John Joseph, 


February 28, 1885. 




. Henry William, 


March 4, 1886. 


Robinson, J. A.» 


Louise Alexandra, 


October 23, 1892. 




Letitia, 


October 6, 1893. 


Roseberry, 


Joseph White, 


April 29, 1897. 


Sloan, 


Eva, 


September i, 1887. 




Annie May, 


May 9, 1890. 


Smith, W. McB. 


,, Lygon Corbin, 


August 17, 1882. 




Oliver Carey, 


July 2, 1885. 




Ethel Pickens, 


January 11, 1890. 


Stokes, 


Martha, 


September 5, 1878. 




Anna, 


January 13, 1880. 




Jordan, Jr., 


August 3, 1883. 




James, 


October 28, 1887. 


Sweet, 


Charles Thompson, 


March 8, 1889. 


[d. Tune 3, 


1897]. 






Ruth Murray, 


November 25, 1890. 



176 



Warner, 



Wells, 



Kingsley, 

Alice Gertrude, 
Philip Beverley, 
John McConnell, 
Maud, 
Erastus, 
Lloyd P., 
Jane H., 
Isabella, 



June 30, 1 88 1. 

[d. Mch 2, 1885], 
April 24, 1883. 
March 2, 1885. 
February 21, 1892. 
November i, 1879. 
March 7, 1881. 
March 9, 1885. 
October 15, 1891. 
June 24, 1895. 



177 



DECEASED 

Henry Rush Biddle January 3, 1877. 

George Fielding Ficklen May 10, 1877. 

Lieut. Jonathan Williams Biddle . . . September 30, 1877. 

Lewis Malford Walker May 10, 1878. 

Robert Jacob Ross April 10, 1879. 

Samuel Davis Melton December 10, 1880. 

Warren Woodward December 3, 1881. 

Charles Hartridge November 23, 1882. 

Brodie Jackman Crawford July 27, 1883. 

Frederick Alexander Marquand .... December 20, 1885. 

Rev. Albert Van Deusen January 10, 1886. 

George DuBois Parmly December 29, 1889. 

Henry Horace Webster January 17, 1891. 

Lieut. Leighton Finley February 12, 1894. 

George Burnham Martin April 29, 1896. 

Rev. Harris Rogers Schenck June 21, 1898. 

Rev. William Edgar Plumley May 14, 1901. 

School of Science 

Frank Davenport Cook December — , 1887. 

Non-Graduate Members 

Lincoln Wood, Marston November 16, 1873. 

James Sears Dickerson February 26, 1876. 

David Jay Murphey, Jr July 4, 1880. 

Harry Backus Kaufman December 27, 1882. 

Rev. Charles Page Emerson January 19, 1887. 

Charles Talbot Mitchell September 13, 1887. 

Allen Taylor Kyle April 5, 1889. 

Harold Mann July 31, 1889. 

Charles Froome Bragg February 22, 1893. 

Jonathan Robert Sweet June 3, 1897. 

Hamilton Markley April 4, 1900. 

178 



RECAPITULATION 

The total membership of the class is 157, dis- 
tributed as follows: Graduates, Academic, no; 
School of Science, 8 ; Non-graduate members, Aca- 
demic, 37; School of Science, 2. 

Deceased: Academic, 17; School of Science, i; 
Non-graduate members, Academic, 11. Total, 29. 

The living members of the Class number as fol- 
lows : Academic, 93 ; School of Science, 7 ; Non- 
graduate members. Academic, 26; School of 
Science, 2. Total, 128. 

Reports have been received for this Record from 
Graduates, Academic, 88; School of Science, 6; 
Non-graduate members, Academic, 19; School 
of Science, 2. Total, 115. Of those not reporting 
there are but six of whom nothing is known. For 
the Record of 1891 there were received 115 reports; 
for that of 1896, 120. 

Those of the Class who have been married num- 
ber: Graduates, Academic, 87; School of Science, 
8; Non-graduate members. Academic, 27; School 
of Science, i. Total, 123, 

The children of the Class, as reported, number 
370 (of whom 38 are deceased) ; to Graduates, Aca- 
demic, were born 281 ; School of Science, 25 ; Non- 
graduate members, Academic, 59; School of 
Science, 5. 

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THE ^UARTER-CENrURT 
REUNION 

The assembling of "the sons of '76" for the "silver 
anniversary" began Friday, June 7, 1901, Bonner, 
Davis, Harrison, Hegeman, Milburn, C. R. Smith and 
Van Lennep arriving during the afternoon and even- 
ing. The Headquarters were opened at once, at 31 
University Place which had been engaged a year be- 
fore for this purpose, and Saturday morning the house 
was abundantly and tastefully decorated with orange 
and black and the national colors, the principal feature 
being a broad strip of orange bunting across the 
porch, having inscribed on it "Welcome, Faculty and 
Alumni/' This was flanked on either side by banners 
bearing, respectively, "Welcome, Harvard," and "Wel- 
come, Yale." On the lawn the Class numerals were 
outlined with small American flags. 

Every train on Saturday added to the numbers, 
those registered being Ball, Macky, Fowler, M. N. 
Johnson, Woods, J. M. Mann, Peter Carter Mann, 
Patterson, Cowart, Noble, Henderson, Gregory, Cha- 
pin, Cuvellier, Symmes, Scudder, Kaufman, E. D. 
Lyon, A. B. Conger, W. A. Butler, H. R. Butler, 
Henry, Taylor, Elliott, and Parker. At 10:30 a. m., 
came the Junior Orations, and as "Jeff" Davis was 
one of the judges, his genial presence was missed from 

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Headquarters ' for a season. After luncheon the 
forces were marshalled, each man, carrying an orange 
flag bearing the Class number, and, preceded by a band 
of fifteen pieces, imported from Cranbury, marched to 
the railway station to meet the last trains before the 
ball game, then through the town and the college 
grounds to the baseball field. Seated with the Class 
were the wives and daughters of several of its 
members. 

One week before Yale had beaten Princeton by a 
score of 9 to 8, making six runs in the last inning; 
therefore much interest was felt in this contest, but 
Yale, although playing an excellent and plucky game, 
could not get her hits properly placed, and lost — 15 
to 5. (The third game, which was thus necessitated, 
was played in New York, June 14, and gave another 
victory, and the series, to Princeton by a score of 5 to 
2. There were no games with Harvard this year.) 

After the game, the various classes of alumni 
marched about the ball-field with their bands, pre- 
senting a most interesting sight; then returned to the 
College in a long procession, and sought their various 
rallying places. Saturday evening had for special at- 
tractions the senior class singing on the steps of Old 
North and the Glee Club concert in Alexander Hall. 
Sunday morning, Alexander Hall was crowded to hear 
Dr. Patton's baccalaureate sermon, and ^'jd was well 
represented in the congregation. One newcomer, 
Bryden, registered during the day. 

Monday's trains brought Russell, Stewart, R. N. 
Todd, J. A. L. Smith, Perrine, Beach, Lott, 



F. B. Smith, J. A. Robinson, Van Dike, Lytle and 
Scott H. Lytle, Evans, H. A. Todd, Turnure, Oli- 
phant and T. Jones. Harris B. Stewart, 1903, was 
also registered with his father. 

By special appointment, Mrs. James McCosh was at 
home to the Class of 'y^ at five o'clock, and we 
marched from Headquarters, each bearing his '76 flag, 
through the campus to her house, where the dear old 
lady, strong and vigorous in spite of her years, gave 
each man a most cordial welcome. Returning, the 
Class were photographed on the steps of North Col- 
lege (see frontispiece), and then proceeded to the 
Headquarters. 

The ^uina-Vicesimal Class Meeting 
President Bonner called the Class to order and the 
Treasurer presented the following report in regard to 
the Record of 1896 and other expenses : 

EXPENSES. 

Illustrations $151.20 

Printing 156.40 

Binding and stamping 60.40 

Mailing 22.00 

Menus and posters 9.75 

Circulars, postage, etc 7.75 

$407.50 

RECEIPTS. 

From 99 subscriptions $293.28 

Deficit 114.22 

$407.50 
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SESQUI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 

Circulars and postage $5-25 

Banner, torches, etc 2.50 

Circulars, etc., Feb. i, 1897 4.75 



$12.50 



There being a total deficit of $126.72, an appeal was 
issued in February, 1897, to the Class, which met with 
a generous response of $160,68, so that there was a 
balance in hand of $33.96 to begin the work of the 
present year. 

The Class Officers and the Executive Committee 
were re-elected, as follows : 

President — Robert Edwin Bonner. 

Vice-President — Henry E. Davis. 

Secretary and Treasurer — Henry L. Harrison. 

Executive Committee — The Class Officers, W. A. 
Butler, Jr., and C. R. Smith. 

The question of having a reunion of the Class in 
three years, in addition to the usual gathering at the 
end of five years, was raised, and, on motion that was 
duly carried, the matter was referred to the Executive 
Committee, with the request that within a year they 
present the subject to the Class and solicit a vote 
upon it. 

On motion, the Record Committee were requested 
to issue a Record in 1906. 

It was also moved and carried that the expense of 
maintaining headquarters be assessed upon the mem- 
bers of the Class. 

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The meeting had hardly gotten under way, when 
Professor Cameron came in. He was most cordially 
welcomed, and spoke for a few minutes of the service 
he was able to render Princeton through his knowl- 
edge of her history, concluding by saying that he was 
like an orange that was being sucked and would soon 
be thrown away to be trodden under foot and for- 
gotten. 





T^he Dinner 




Business havin 


g been transacted 


, the Class, forty- 


seven in number 


, marched to the Inn, where dinner 


was served at 8 


o'clock. The following men were 


present : 






Ball 


Hegeman 


Perrine 


Beach 


Henderson 


J. A. Robinson 


Bonner 


Henry 


Russell 


Bryden 


M. N. Johnson 


Scudder 


H. R. Butler 


T. D. Jones 


C. R. Smith 


W. A. Butler 


Kaufman 


F. B, Smith 


Chapin 


Lott 


J. A. L. Smith 


A. B. Conger 


E. D. Lyon 


Stewart 


Cowart 


Lytle 


Symmes 


Cuvellier 


Macky 


Taylor 


Davis 


Mann 


H. A. Todd 


Elliott ■ 


Milburn 


Turnure 


Evans 


Noble 


Van Dike 


Fowler 


Oliphant 


Van Lennep 


Gregory 


Parker 


Woods 


Harrison 


Patterson 





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Following are the menu and list of toasts : 

Menu 

Little Neck Clams on the Shell 

Consomme Macedoine 

Olives Radishes Salted Almonds 

Broiled Spanish Mackerel 

Cucumbers Potatoes Parisienne 

Sweetbreads Larded with Green Peas 

Tenderloin of Beef with Mushrooms 

Punch 'y6 Turkish Cigarettes 

Roast Spring Chicken 

New Asparagus 

Lettuce 

Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream Petits fours 

Toasted Biscuit Roquefort Cheese 

Coffee 



Toasts and Responses 



ROBERT EDWIN BONNER 

President 

HENRY M. RUSSELL 

Toastmaster 



"Old friends are best." — Selden. 

"I love everything that's old, 
Old friends, old times.." — Goldsmith 

"Though we see the white breakers of age on our bow. 
Let us take a good pull in the jolly-boat now." — Holmes. 



I. Alma Mater .... Robert Edwin Bonner 

outh, 
hers 

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"Her eye has all its radiant youth, her cheek its morning flame; 
We drop our roses as we go, hers flourish still the same." — Holmes^ 



2. Our Boys on the Board . . George B. Stewart 

"Magnificent specimen of human happiness." — Smith. 

"His cogitative faculties immersed in 
cubibundity of cogitation." — The Cactus. 

3. Our Noble Class .... Henry E. Davis 

"Four happy years together, 

By storm and sunshine tried, 

In changing wind and weather, 

We roughed it side by side." — Holmes. 

4. Classmates Gone Before .... In Silence 

"And thoughts are still mingled, 

Whenever we meet, 

For those we remember. 

With those that we greet." — Holmes. 

5. The Boys of the Cloth . . . Leonard W. Lott 

"So didst they travel in life's common way. 
In cheerful godliness." — Wordsworth. 

6. The Unmated Boys . . , Edward D. Lyon 

"The girl who loves me. 
Here's to her! 
To all her charms! 
Drink to her, old chaps. 
For she doesn't exist. 
The girl who loves me. 
Here's to her!"- — The Cactus. 

7. Our Medical Ones . . . . M. Allen Starr 

"But when ill, indeed, 

E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed." — Colman. 

8. The Educators of the Class . . Henry A. Todd 

"He was a scholar and a ripe and good one; 

Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading."- — Shakespeare. 

9. Our Composer and Critic . Wm. J. Henderson 

"The soul of music slumbers in the shell, 

Till waked and kindled by the master's spell." — Rogers. 

10. '76 in the Political Arena . Bernard C. Cuvellier 

"Up to the times, clever fellow." — Sidney. 
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11. Our Brothers at the Bar . . . Bayard Henry 

"Here's to bride and mother-in-law. 

Here's to groom and father-in-law, 

Here's to sister and brother-in-law, 

Here's to friends and friends-in-law. 

May none of them need an attorney-at-law." — Anon. 

12. The Absent Boys .... David B. Jones 

"We miss him, yet we feel him still 
Amidst our faithful band." — Holmes. 

13. The Married Boys ..... J. Frank Ball 

"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged from 
the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution 
wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?" — Emerson. 

14. Our Journalistic Brothers . Lapsley G. Walker 

"His imperial fancy has collected riches from every scene of 
the creation and every walk of art." — Hall. 

15. The Ladies Sylvester W. Beach 

"Here's to the girl with eyes of blue. 
Whose heart is kind and whose love is true; 
Here's to the girl whose eyes are brown. 
Whose spirit proud you cannot down; 
Here's to the girl whose eyes are gray, 
Whose sunny smile drives care away; 
Whate'er the hue of their eyes may be, 
I'll drink to the girls this toast with thee." — Anon. 

16. The Class Committee . . Henry L. Harrison 

"They see the work of their own hearts." — Shelley. 
"Ease and alternate labor, useful life." — Thomson. 



"Then once again before we part. 
My empty glass shall ring; 
And he that hath the warmest heart 
Shall loudest laugh and sing." — Holmes. 

"Gude nicht and joy be wi' you v! ."—'Navrne. 

When dinner was about half over, the menus were 
started about the table, and each diner affixed his au- 
tograph to each, so that all took away a very interest- 
ing souvenir of the occasion. 

At the proper time, the Czar opened the talk opera- 

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tions of the night with a few appropriate remarks, 
after which he turned over the meeting to "Slim," 
our accomplished toastmaster. "Slim," however, did 
not have things altogether his own way, for the Czar 
came in occasionally with a few suitable diversions, 
"Paley" Stewart was the representative of our Class 
in the Board of Trustees, where we now have three 
men. "Paley" told briefly what the objects of our 
boys are, and spoke to us in the old straight, strong 
fashion, which none of us are likely to forget. 

"Our Noble Class" was the toast on the programme 
for "J^ff" Davis, but Bonner made him respond to 
"Our Alma Mater." "Jefif" surprised his hearers by 
stating that when he left the College his mind was 
unsettled on religious questions, chiefly because neith- 
er Dr. Guyot nor Dr. McCosh would explain to him 
how animal life was developed on a coral island. He 
had heard the baccalaureate sermon of Dr. Patton on 
Sunday, and in it he found no satisfaction. In short, 
"Jeff" complained that his Alma Mater had not done 
a great deal for his soul, and he threw himself for 
hope upon the Scriptures. 

After the memory of "Our Classmates Gone Be- 
fore" had been drunk in silence, the Rev. Leonard 
W. Lott responded to the toast of "The Boys of the 
Cloth." Lott spoke in the same musical voice that 
used to delight us in Soph Year, and he paid a fitting 
tribute to the fellows who are working behind the sa- 
cred desk. 

Eddie Lyon had a hard task in responding to the 
"Unmarried Boys," for he undertook to apologize for 

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them and to explain that they were better off than the 
married fellows. This was too much even for "Soon- 
er" Fowler, who is still a bach., and as for the mar- 
ried men present, they simply laughed Eddie to scorn. 
Lyon supported his position with many apt quotations, 
but he was pleading before a packed jury and was 
bound to lose his case. 

Dr. M, Allen Starr was down to respond to "Our 
Medical Ones," but he was unfortunately not with 
us, and Dr. "Jack" Taylor kindly consented to act as 
his substitute. "Jack" made a graceful speech, in 
which he touched upon the important topic of a med- 
ical department at Princeton. He did not think our 
University advantageously situated for the establish- 
ment of a working medical school, because of the ab- 
sence of large hospitals. He believed, however, that 
a school for special medical research along advanced 
lines, not requiring the presence of human subjects, 
could be founded in Princeton and conducted success- 
fully. 

Harry Todd, who continues to be a Professor in 
Columbia, was called upon to respond to "The Edu- 
cators of the Class." Todd made some interesting re- 
marks about his experiences in dealing with the in- 
tellects of the young. Hendy, when called upon to 
respond to a toast to himself, repudiated the accusa- 
tion of "Slim" that he was a composer, and declared 
that the greatest composer Princeton had ever pro- 
duced was Bonner, because he had once succeeded in 
composing "Sooner." Hendy further declared that 
the spirit of Princeton seemed to be that of progress, 

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and that Xenophon's constantly reiterated "Enteuthen 
exelaunei" was descriptive of the history of the 
Class. 

To the toast of '"^6 in the Political Arena," Cuvel- 
lier, who was with us for the first time since he left 
College, responded in a very earnest speech. He dep- 
recated the manner in which educated gentlemen held 
aloof from the practical work of politics, leaving the 
management of public affairs in the hands of the pro- 
fessional wire-pullers. He urged the men of the 
Class to go to the primaries. Reform, he said, could 
not be accomplished from the outside, but must be 
achieved within the lines of one's party. He spoke 
fluently and eloquently, and the boys applauded him 
heartily. 

"Our Brothers at the Bar" was the subject to which 
Bayard Henry responded. Bayard is a bigger man 
physically than he was when he was in College, and 
he is a substantial man in his talk. He spoke simply 
and frankly, and he had a word or two to say in addi- 
tion to Stewart's about the work of Princeton's 
trustees. 

"Our Absent Boys" was set down for Dave Jones, 
but he was unable to be with us. "Slim" secured an 
excellent substitute in the person of Tom Elliott. He 
made one of those happy speeches for which he has 
become notable at our reunions. Most gracefully did 
he tell us how the absent boys were with us and how 
we were with them, and how the associations of the 
Class were always an inspiration to its members wher- 
ever they were doing their work in this world. 

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Judge Ball (Bloody) responded to "The Married 
Boys." The Judge always makes a "tear" at Class 
reunions, but on this: occasion he outdid himself. He 
paid such an eloquent and touching tribute to the 
wives of the Class that he really moved his hearers, 
while his few brief words of sympathy with poor 
Eddie Lyon and his kind were deliciously apt and 
pointed. 

"Yap" Walker was on the menu to answer to "Our 
Journalistic Brothers," but he was unable to escape 
from his editorial burdens in Chattanooga, and so 
Turnure spoke in his place. Turnure disposed of 
his subject briefly and then invited the attention of the 
Class to journalistic enterprise in Princeton, espe- 
cially the Alumni Weekly. 

Beach was quite unable to see why he should have 
been chosen to respond to "The Ladies," but he proved 
in his few well-chosen words that he had a most sub- 
stantial appreciation of their adorable qualities. 

The proceedings wound up with General Harrison's 
response to "The Class Committee." The General 
read some letters and telegrams of regret from fel- 
lows who could not join us, spoke of a few of the 
difficulties encountered in getting up the Class Rec- 
ord, and from his correspondence in connection with 
the Record gave illustrations of the thought which 
had been amplified by Elliott, the unconscious influ- 
ence exerted one upon another by members of the 
Class of '76, and the incentive thereby given to many 
to do their best in all situations in life. 

Soon after speech-making began, Mr. James W. 

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Alexander, '60, came into the room and, being called 
upon to speak, recalled his adoption into the Class 
five years before, pledged himself to attend all our fu- 
ture reunions and expressed his great pride in the 
privilege. 

The statement was made during the week that the 
largest attendance of any Class at a twenty-fifth anni- 
versary thus far had been forty-seven. The Class of 
^'jd was able to break this record, for while there were 
only forty-seven at the Class Dinner, there had been 
forty-eight men in town that day, R. N. Todd having 
been compelled to leave during the afternoon on ac- 
count of other engagements. Reference to the De- 
cennial Record discloses the fact that the meeting in 
1886 "was the largest Class reunion ever held at 
Princeton, our own Triennial being the largest pre- 
viously." 

The breaking up of this, our most delightful gath- 
ering, began all too soon. Several withdrawing be- 
fore the speeches were over, took the trolley to Tren- 
ton and the late trains thence; others left by early 
trains on Tuesday, but there were about twenty-five 
to join in the procession of Alumni and to partake of 
the Alumni Dinner, 'yd was honored by having a 
representative preside, the Hon. Henry E. Da«is, 
LL.D., having been invited to perform that duty. 
"Jeff" was fully primed to speak for 'j^ in due course, 
but the earlier speeches were long and the day was 
warm, so the "man without a vote," by a Herculean 
effort, skipped from '71 to '81. He presided well, his 

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introductions were always happy, none could have 
done better. 

The weather must be alluded to; it was glorious, 
•cool and pleasant, but by Wednesday it had become 
the wonted Princeton Commencement article, and the 
last men, most of whom had also been the first, were 
ready to depart to their several homes, vowing they 
would return more frequently hereafter. 



THE CLASS OF 'y6 
MEMORIAL PRIZE DEBATE 

At the Class reunion in 1886, this prize was estab- 
lished, under the following regulations : The debate 
should be held on Washington's Birthday of each 
year ; there should be four contestants, one from each 
class; the subject debated should be one of current 
interest in American politics. It was further ar- 
ranged that the Professor of Political Economy should 
€ach year select the subject and announce it at least 
two months previous to the time of the debate; that 
the Faculty should appoint three men to act as judges 
and award the prize. 

Subscriptions were obtained and the money was in- 
vested, from the income of which $50 was paid each 
year to the winner in debate. In 1891, the Class voted 
to increase the prize to $100, but sufficient money was 
not secured for this until 1895, since which time the 
prize awarded has been $100. 

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The securities now in possession of the Treasurer 
of Princeton University to the credit of this fund are 
one one-thousand-dollar bond of the Chicago, Rock 
Island & Pacific Railroad, due in 1934, and twenty 
fifty-dollar shares of stock of the Nesquehoning Val- 
ley Railroad, each bearing five per cent. 

The total subscription amounted to $2,263.01. 

The debate was held in the old chapel on the even- 
ing of Washington's Birthday until 1895, when the 
contest was transferred to Alexander Hall and held 
in the morning, before the other customary exercises 
of the day, which are given in the gymnasium. 

Originally each debater was allowed twelve minutes 
for his first speech and eight minutes for rebuttal, but 
of late years these have been reduced to nine minutes 
and five minutes respectively. 

The Record of 1896 contained the subjects dis- 
cussed and the names of the debaters and prize win- 
ners from the establishment of the prize until that 
date. Following are the subjects and names of de- 
baters since 1896. Those having the affirmative side 
of the question are placed at the left, the negative at 
the right : 

1897 
Resolved, That the best interests of the United 
States require a large increase in her navy. 

H. H. Yocum, '98, Pa. W. B. Ramsey, '97, O. 
J. Jones, '00, N. J. N. S. Reeves, '99, N. Y. 

Prize awarded to H. H. Yocum. 
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1898 

Resolved, That the United States should establish 
a system of Postal Savings Banks. 

Samuel B. Scott, '00, Pa. S. T. D. Jones, '01, N. J. 
Daniel F. Altland, '98, Pa. Wm. M. Schultz, '99, Pa. 
Prize awarded to Daniel F. Altland. 

1899 
Resolved, That our foreign policy should be guid- 
ed by the principles laid down in Washington's Fare- 
well Address. 

R. P. Swofford, '01, Mo. E. M. Mulock, '02, Pa. 
A. S. Weston, '99, Me. J. H. Hill, '00, Pa. 
Prize awarded to A. S. Weston. 

1900 
Resolved, That the mutual relations of Great 
Britain and the United States would be promoted by a 
formal alliance. 

Axtell J. Byles, '03, Pa. Lester S. Kafer, '02, N. J. 
Walter E. Hope, '01, N. Y. John B. Kelly, '00, D. C. 
Prize awarded to Axtell J. Byles. 

1901 
Resolved, That the constitutional restrictions upon 
the suffrage recently adopted in North Carolina are 
for that State both wise and necessary. 

T. A. Butkiewicz, '04, Pa. John Ewing Steen, '03, Pa. 
Alex. J. Barrow, '02, Pa. Robt. Service Steen, '01, Pa. 
Prize awarded to Robert Service Steen. 

19s 



THE SES^UICENTENNIAL 

When the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 
the signing of the charter of the College of New Jer- 
sey was celebrated, October 22, 1896, the following 
members of the Class took part in the festivities and 
marched about town in the procession: Ball, Beach, 
W. A. Butler, Jr., Co wart. Dunning, Edwards, W. B. 
Greene, Jr., Harrison, Hegeman, Henry, M. N. John- 
son, D. B. Jones, T. D. Jones, Leason, Mann, Markley, 
Markoe, Oliphant, Parker, Perrine, Riker, C. R. 
Smith, F. S. Smith, Starr, W. P. Stevenson, Stewart, 
Van Lennep, Van Dike, Woods. Four were accom- 
panied by their wives : Cowart, Edwards, Oliphant and 
Parker. Two brought two sons each: W. A. Butler 
and Stewart. 

'y6 AND PRINCETON 

It is impossible at this time to present a complete 
list of the gifts made by members of the Class to the 
University in the past five years, but following are 
some of them: For the McCosh Professorship, 
$10,000, $550, $550 ; for the General Fund, $500 ; for 
trees and shrubs on the campus, $2,000; to purchase 
Ibooks for the Mathematics Seminary, $1,000, $500, 
$500, $250; for the new gymnasium, $250, $25, and 
seven men each give $1,000; for the Princeton 
Alumni University Fund, 35 men are annual contrib- 
utors, the total of their gifts for 1900 being $360. 

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THE FIRST FIFE TEARS OF 
THE UNIVERSITY 

When the Class of '76 celebrated its vigintennial,, 
our Alma Mater was still the College of New Jersey. 
Now she is Princeton University. It was in that year, 
1896, that the University came into being. Five 
years in the new order of things have passed and have 
been notable in the development of the institution. 

Within the period the two dormitories, Blair Hall 
and Stafford Little Hall, the University Library and 
the additional Y. M. C. A. Building, Dodge Hall, 
have been erected. These buildings are not only the 
most beautiful upon our campus, they inaugurate a 
new era in our architectural development. For ex- 
ample, Blair Hall and Little Hall embody the idea 
of enclosing the campus with magnificent structures. 
To each of these it is proposed to make additions, by 
which one will be extended to University Hall, and 
the other toward the Brokaw Memorial, being con- 
nected with it by the new gymnasium. It is not im- 
probable that in days to come University Hall will 
give place to a building in harmony with the new 
ones, thus continuing the scheme along Nassau Street 
and making a cordon of buildings unequaled in any 
university. It is to be hoped, however, that the- 
campus in front of Old North will never be enclosed. 

There have been added to the Faculty twelve pro- 
fessors and instructors, all of whom are increasing- 
the reputation of that body for brilliancy in scholar- 

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ship and pedagogical skill. Of the present large Fac- 
ulty, over eighty in all, only eight — Professors Cam- 
eron, Shields, Packard, Brackett, Cornwall, Macklos- 
kie, MacMillan and Hunt — ^were our teachers. Dear 
old "Duff" was the last to leave us and pass to his 
glorious reward. Able as was the Faculty of our day, 
we must admit the splendid service and high ability 
of the present Faculty. We rejoice that the teaching 
power of Princeton has vastly increased, and in no 
period of five years more than in the last. 

Within this period the student body has grown from 
1, 088 to 1,277. No finer set of fellows can be found 
on any campus. The best of it all is that the demo- 
cratic traditions of Princeton are preserved. The 
good-fellowship, the absence of snobbishness, the even 
chance for all men, the "Princeton spirit," are as con- 
spicuous in the University as in the College. 

There has been marked progress in the curriculum. 
The entrance requirements in the Academic Depart- 
ment were quite high enough, but they needed some 
modification by way of adjustment. This has been 
effected. In the School of Science there was need 
for thorough revision of the entrance requirements. 
This has been recently accomplished, with the prom- 
ise of great advantage to the School. 

In the curriculum proper a large number of val- 
uable courses have been added, and the range of elec- 
tives has been widened. 

The Seminaries have been increased in number, 
thoroughly organized and luxuriously housed in their 
own quarters in the University Library. There are 

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now the Classical Philology, the English, the Mathe- 
matics, the Romance Languages, the Philosophy, the 
Ancient History and Archaeology, the Economics, and 
the History Seminaries, in all of which professors 
and students are pursuing advanced work with fine 
enthusiasm. 

Although the Seminarium had found its place in 
the College, yet in the University, the number, equip- 
ment, organization and efficiency of the seminaries 
have advanced until they are an integral and valued 
part of the institution's intellectual life. 

The fine form in which our representatives now ap- 
pear in the inter-collegiate debates, and the victories 
they win, are due to the organization two years ago 
of special courses in the Departments of Politics, His- 
tory, Economics, and Oratory. 

The Faculty has been more perfectly organized. 
An Academic Faculty and a Scientific Faculty have 
been formed, and these, together, constitute the Uni- 
versity Faculty. All of the Faculties have their 
necessary committees. 

A Secretary to the University has been added to 
the executive force. His duties mainly are to be a 
medium of communication between the University and 
the outside world, and to relieve the President's office 
of the enormous amount of detail business which has 
come to it with the growth of the University. 

A Dean of the Graduate School has been elected 
within the past year. Hitherto the graduate work 
has not been organized into a separate department, 
and it will be the duty of the new Dean to do this. 

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While he has not yet formally entered his new office^ 
yet Dean West, '74, has been formulating his plans 
and determining his policy. We may confidently ex- 
pect that the steps already taken and those contem- 
plated will make our Graduate School what it ought 
to be — one of the prominent features of our Uni- 
versity. 

A scheme for the representation of the Alumni in 
the government of the University has been adopted 
and set a-going. At the recent Commencement the 
first election for Alumni Trustees was held and 
awakened a gratifying degree of interest among the 
Alumni. 

It was flattering to the Class of ^yd that of the five 
Alumni chosen for this position, One was a '76 man,. 
David B. Jones, Esq. No worthier man could have 
been elected. 

This period may be called the era of organization. 
There is scarcely a department of the University that 
has not come under the beneficent influence of more 
careful organization. 

Five years is but a finger-breadth in the life of a 
great institution like Princeton. Yet we are amazed 
and delighted by the rapid strides with which Prince- 
ton has advanced between the twentieth and twenty- 
fifth anniversaries of the Class of '^6, the first five^ 
years of the University. G."B. S. 



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FACULTY NOTES 

Rev. Fuller P, Dalrymple, former Tutor in Mathe- 
matics, is pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Boone- 
ville, Ky, 

Rev. Alfred H. Fahnestock, D.D., former Tutor in 
Latin, is pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Syra- 
cuse, N. Y. 

Rev. John Laird died at Afton, Iowa, November, 
1889. 

Mr. Eli Marsh Turner, former Tutor in English, 
and ex-President of the University of West Vir- 
ginia, is living in Morgantown, West Virginia. 

The Faculty, which in 1876 numbered twenty, has 
grown to eighty-eight in 1901. Eight of the former 
number are still upon the roll. The following have 
died during the past five years : 

John Stillwell Schanck, M.D., LL.D., was born in 
Freehold, N. J., February 24, 1817, graduated from 
Princeton in 1840, and studied medicine at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, receiving his degree of M.D. 
in 1843. He was Professor of Chemistry, etc., at 
Princeton from 1842 to 1893, Emeritus Professor of 
Chemistry and Hygiene from 1892. He died Decem- 
ber, 16, 1898. 

Rev. James Ormsbee Murray, D.D., LL.D., was 
born in Camden, S. C, November 27, 1827, graduated 
from Brown University in 1850, and from Andover 

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Theological Seminary in 1854. He became associate 
pastor of the Brick Church, New York, in 1865, pas- 
tor in 1873, and in 1874 was called to Princeton to be- 
come Professor of Belles-Lettres and English Lan- 
guage and Literature. In 1886 he became the first 
Dean of Princeton College. He died March 27, 1899. 
Rev. John T. Duffield, D.D., LL.D., was born at 
McConnellsburg, Pa., February 19, 1823. He was 
graduated at Princeton in the Class of 1841. After 
teaching for two years, he entered the Theological 
Seminary in 1844, and in February, 1845, he was ap- 
pointed Tutor of Greek in the College, continuing 
in this department for two years. He graduated 
from the Theological Seminary in 1848. He then 
became Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the 
College, later full Professor, Mechanics being added 
to bis department. In 1898 he was made Emeritus 
Professor. He died April 10, 1901. 



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. FOOTBALL 

The following summary of Princeton-Yale games is 
taken from the Princeton Alumni Weekly: 

Princeton. Yale. Princeton. YaJe. 

Goals. Goals, Goals. Goals 

1873.. 3 o 1879 o o. 

1876 o 2 1880 . o o 

1877 , o o 1881 o o 

1878 I O 1882 I 2 

Points. Points. Points. Points. 

1883.. o 6 1885 6 5 

1884 Game unfinished on 1886.... Game unfinished 
account darkness on account darkness. 

Princeton. Yale. Princeton. Yale. 

Points. Points. Points. Points 

1887 O 12 1894 O 24 

1888 o 10 1895 10 20 

1889 10 o 1896 24 6 

1890 o 32 1897 O 6 

1891 o 19 1898 6 o 

1892. .. O 12 1899.. II 10 

1893 6 o 1900 5 29 

Since 1880, the games and scores with Harvard 

have been as follows : 

'81, Princeton, i safety; Harvard, i safety; '82, 

Princeton, i goal, 2 safeties; Harvard, i goal, i 

touch-down. 

Princeton. Harvard. Princeton. Harvard, 

Points. Points. Points. Points, 

1883 26 6 1888 18 6 

1884 34 6 1889 41 15 

1886.. I.... 12 o 1895 12 4 

'1887 ., o 12 1896 12 o 

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BASEBALL 

The Record of 1896 contained (page 175) a com- 
plete list of the scores made by Princeton and Yale in 
baseball to that time. Since then the following games 
have been played: 



1897. 
1897. 
1897. 
1898. 
1898. 
1898. 
1899. 



Princeton. 

9 

, 16 

22 

. 12 

4 

3 

o 



Yale. 
10 



1899. 
1899. 
1900. 
1900. 
I9OI. 
I9OI. 
I9OI. 



Priaceton. 

. 6 

II 

. 9 

. 5 



15 

5 



Vale. 
2 

4 
3 
4 
9 
5 
2 



With Harvard the following games have been played 
since 1896 : 



Princeton. Harvard. 



1897. 
1897. 
1897. 
1898. 
1898. 



6 

4 

2 

12 

9 



i{ 
1899. 
1900. 
1900. 



Princeton. Harvard. 
. 10 2 

. 12 2 

. O 4 

. 9 2 



No game in 1901. 



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THE CLASS ROLL AND 
ADDRESSES 

{Kindly notify the Secretary of any change of address^ 

Dudley S. Anness, 983 Bergen St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Hon. J. Frank Ball, 1019 Park Place, Wilmington, 

Del. 
Rev. James M. Barkley, D.D., 179 Alexandrine Ave,,. 

West, Detroit, Mich. 
Rev. Sylvester W. Beach, Bridgeton, N. J. 
Rev. T. C. Beattie, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
Robert Edwin Bonner, The Ledger Office, Spruce and 

William Sts., New York City. 
Harrington Brown, 4875 Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, 

Cal. 
John P. Brown, care of Charles Scribner's Sons, 153- 

157 Fifth Ave., New York City. 
Hon. Oren Britt Brown, Dayton, Ohio. 
John K. Bryden, Times Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Howard Russell Butler, Carnegie Hall, New York 

City. 
William Allen Butler, Jr., 54 Wall St., New York 

City. 
John G. Cecil, M.D., 1537 Fourth Ave., Louisville, Ky. 
Rev. Arthur B. Chaffee, D.D., 1325 Twelfth St., De& 

Moines, Iowa. 

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Rev. William N. Chambers, Adana, Turkey-in-Asia, 
via London. Book-post, Mersine, Turkey-in- 
Asia, via French Post from Marseilles. 

Rev. Charles B. Qiapin, D.D., 117 Convent Ave., New- 
York City. 

Rev. Harrison Clarke, Boulder, Colo. 

William A. Cleland, Chamber of Commerce Building, 
Portland, Oregon. 

Rev. Arthur B. Conger, Rosemont, Pa. 

John Conger, care John C. Ten Eyck, Esq., 39 Wall 
St., New York City. 

Isaac W. Cooley, 914 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Alfred C. Coursen, Madison, N. J. 

Bryant O. Cowan, Springfield, 111. 

Samuel C. Cowart, Freehold, N. J. 

Clarence Cuningham, Charleston, S. C. 

B. C. Cuvellier, 1223 Union St., Oakland, Cal. 

Hon. Henry E. Davis, LL.D., Jenifer Building, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Augustus H. Dellicker, HackettstoAvn, N. J. 

Rev. Prof. Collins Denny, Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville, Tenn. 

Rev. Elliott L. Dresser, Divernon, Sangamon Co., 111. 

Frank Dunning, Valley Home, Warwick, Orange Co., 
N. Y. 

R. A. Edwards, Peru, Indiana. 

Thomas I. Elliott, 440 Equitable Building, Balti- 
more, Md. 

E. S. Ely. 

Rev. Edward C. Evans, Remsen, Oneida Co., N. Y. 

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Charles D.. Fowler, 1420 M St., Washington, D. C. 

Rev. Albert A. Fulton, Canton, China. 

Cecil C. Fulton, Dover, Del. 

Alexander B. Gillespie, Garrett, Wyo. 

Wm. W. Green, 120 Broadway, New York City. 

Samuel B. Greene, Monticello, N. Y. 

Rev. Prof. Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr., D. D., 60 
Stockton St., Princeton, N. J. 

C. Cuyler Gregory, 914 First Ave., North, Fargo, N. 
Dak. 

Rev. H. P. Hamilton, P. O. Box 2155, Mexico City, 
Mexico. 

Rev. Robert Wilson Hamilton, Lisburn, Co. An- 
trim, Ireland. 

Henry L. Harrison, 20 East 50th St., New York City. 

John A. Hegeman, M.D., 200 Pennington Ave., Pas- 
saic, N. J. 

W. J. Henderson, Editorial Rooms, New York Times, 
N. Y. 

Hon. Bayard Henry, 701 Drexel Building, Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

Edward P. Holden, Mutual Life Insurance Co., New 
York City. 

James C. Jenkins, 264 Washington St., Atlanta, Ga. 

Morris N. Johnson, 290 Broadway, or 326 West 33rd 
St., New York City. 

Major Richard W. Johnson, M.D., U.S.A., Santa 
Mesa Hospital, Manila, P. I. 

Robert W. Johnson, M.D., loi West Franklin St., 
Baltimore, Md. 

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David B. Jones, 62 Astor St., Chicago, 111. 

Thomas D. Jones, 62 Astor St., Chicago, 111. 

Wm. T. Kaufman, 29 Nassau St., New York City. 

Rev. George Knox, Indianapolis, Ind. 

Rev. W. R. Laird, West Chester, Pa. 

M. F. Leason, Kittanning, Pa. 

Rev. Robert Todd Liston, Wetumpka, Ala. 

Jay Henry Long, Mankato, Minn. 

Rev. Leonard W. Lott, Parley Vale, Jamaica Plain,. 
Boston, Mass. 

Rev. J. Walter Lovi^rie, American Presbyterian Mis- 
sion, Paotingfu, North China. 

Edward D. Lyon, 622 Fifth Ave., New York City. 

John G. Lyon, 522 West Burke St., Martinsburgh,. 
W. Va. 

Richard R. Lytle, M.D., 22 West 119th St., New York 
City. 

John G. Macky, Media, Pa., and 434 Bourse Building,, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

J. M. Mann, 153-157 Fifth Ave., New York City. 

Francis H. Markoe, M.D., 15 East 49th St., New York 
City. 

Rev. Wm. J. McKittrick, 5097 Washington Ave., St. 
Louis, Mo. 

Robert Hasell McKoy, Wilmington, N. C. 

W. B. McKoy, Wilmington, N. C. 

Rev. Page Milburn, 812 Twentieth St., N.W., Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

John G. Miller, Market St. and Jackson Boulevard,. 
Chicago, 111. 

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John Mills, Jr. 

Thomas A. Noble, 508 Diamond St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Henry D. Oliphant, Trenton, N. J. 

Hikoichi Orita, Daisan-Koto-Gakko, Kioto, Japan. 

Frederick Parker, 12 West Main St., Freehold, N. J. 

Robert W. Patterson, 6016 Howe St., Pittsburgh, Pa* 

William Pearson, P. O. Box 258, Harrisburg, Pa. 

David Vanderveer Perrine, Freehold, N. J. 

Hon. Andrew Price, Thibodeaux,, Lafourche Par- 
ish, La. 

John C. L. Pugh, 108^ South High St., Columbus, O. 

Martin Ralph, 62 Willet St., Jamaica, Long Island, 
N. Y. 

Rev. Harris G. Rice, Monticello, Ind. 

Chandler W. Riker, 164 Market St., Newark, N. J. 

Alden K. Riley, 141 7 Twelfth St., Des Moines, Iowa. 

John P. Roberts, P. O. Box 259, Columbus, Wis. 

Rev. Edwin P. Robinson, Dauphin, Pa., and Or- 
chard Park, N. Y. 

James A. Robinson, 604 Monongahela Bank Building, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Joseph M. Roseberry, Belvidere, N. J. 

Wilber F. Rudy, Collamer, Stanley Co., S. Dak. 

Henry M. Russell, 39 Broadway, New York City, and 
378 Court St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

George D. Scudder, Damarin Block, Portsmouth, O. 

Thomas Randolph Sheets, 1039 Marquette Building, 
Chicago, 111. 

Rev. L. J. Shoemaker, Marietta, Ohio. 

Oscar A. Sloan, Monticello, Fla. 

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Charles R. Smith, Menasha, Wis. 

FrankHn Buchanan Smith, M.D., Frederick, Md. 

Frank S. Smith, Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y. 

Rev. J. A. Livingston Smith, 24 North Pine St., 
York, Pa. 

W. McB. Smith, Belton, Tex. 

M. Allen Starr, M.D., 5 W. 54th St., New York Cit^. 

Rev. A. Russell Stevenson, D.D., 6 Union St., Schen- 
ectady, N. Y. 

W. P. Stevenson, 30 Broad St., New York City. 

Rev. George B. Stewart, D.D., 182 North St., Au- 
burn, N. Y. 

Jordan Stokes, Nashville, Tenn. 

Henry C. Symmes, M.D., Cranbury, N. J. 

John Madison Taylor, M.D., 1504 Pine St., Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

Prof. Henry A. Todd, 824 West End Ave., New York 
City, or Woodlands, Baltimore, Md. 

Robert Nairne Todd, Salisbury, Md. 

Arthur Turnure, 3 West 29th St., New York City. 

John S. Van Dike, 28 Model Ave., Trenton, N. J. 

W. B. Van Lennep, M.D., 1421 Spruce St., Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

Lapsley G. Walker, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Rev. DeLacey Wardlaw, Lexington, Va. 

Rev. Beverley Ellison Warner, D.D., 21 15 Chestnut 
St., New Orleans, La. 

Spencer Weart, 29 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J. 

Hon. Rolla Wells, Mayor's Office, St. Louis, Mo. 

Rev. Irving Elisha White, 172 Highland Ave., Port 
Chester, N. Y. 



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Wm. H. Whittlesey, Seattle, Washington, care of 

Chas. F. Whittlesey, Esq. 
Rev. Prof. R. D. Wilson, Princeton, New Jersey. 
Rev. Samuel G. Wilson, Tabriz, Persia, via Berlin. 
Hon. J. M. Woods, Lewistown, Mifflin Co., Pa. 
Rev. Wm. H. Woolverton, Stockton, N. J. 



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